"Joost Kremers" <joostkremers@yahoo.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:slrnbl7cmg.e7r.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.a rnhem.chello.nl...
> Conny Enström wrote:
> > Hello, I just installed Slackware 9.0 on a Toshiba 320CDT with 32 mb
RAM,4gb
> > hd. Everything works fine but I must boot from a floppy.
> >
> > I get the following message when I run lilo from the command prompt:
> >
> > "Warning: LINEAR is deprecated in favor of LBA32: LINEAR specifies
24-bit
> > disk addresses below the 1024 cylinder limit; LBA32 specifies 32-bit
disk
> > addresses not subject to cylinder limits on systems with EDD extensions;
> > use LINEAR only if you are aware of its limitations.
> > Fatal: open /boot/message: No such file or directory "
> >
> > My /etc/lilo.conf look like this:
> >
> > boot= "/dev/hda1"
>
> this should be /dev/hda, if you want to install lilo to the MBR. right
now,
> lilo is installed to the superblock of /dev/hda1. that's not impossible,
> but you'll need another boot loader in the MBR. better to install lilo in
> the MBR, so change it to /dev/hda.
>
> > prompt
> > timeout="1200"
> > message=/boot/message
> > root=/dev/hda1
> > linear <<<<<<-----maybe something to do with this
parameter?
>
> this is what the warning talks about, but it is not the reason why lilo
> isn't installed. a warning is only a warning, and is not fatal to program
> execution. (unlike an error.)
>
> however, as this line indicates:
>
> > Fatal: open /boot/message: No such file or directory "
>
> your problem is that you don't have a file /boot/message. the line
> 'message=/boot/message' in your lilo.conf tells lilo to use this file as a
> boot message. but the file isn't there, so lilo refuses to work.
>
> in slack, the boot message is normally /boot/message.txt. check if you
have
> that file, and modify lilo.conf to match.
>

It worked! Thanks, I got a red looking boot menu and lilo was booting
allright :-)

Conny