Loki Harfagr <l0k1@free.fr> wrote in news:Xns93AC872E3548El0k1freefr@
213.228.0.4:

>> forever. I tried different disks, a different root set. Maybe the
>> FDD is broken, but I don't think that's it. I installed W98 to see
>> if it made any trouble but it went through just fine.
>
> Did you try with this :
> http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/index.p...=download.html
>
> It may save you a lot of time by allowing you to boot
> from the CD even if not "BIOS-bootable" !
>

And moreover, it is already in Slackware rootdisks :

for instance on this distro server :
http://www.slackware.at/data/slackwa...s/sbootmgr.dsk

"
sbootmgr.dsk This nifty little tool allows selecting various devices to
boot from a menu, and even allows booting a CD-ROM in
machines where the BIOS doesn't support it (or it's
supposed to support it, but it just doesn't work).
If you have trouble booting the Slackware CD-ROM, you might
try writing this image to a floppy,
booting it, and then selecting your CD-ROM drive as the
boot device.

The SBM installer is available as a Slackware package
(called "btmgr") in the extra/ packages collection.
"