In article <slrnbl7cmg.e7r.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhe m.chello.nl>, Joost Kremers wrote:
> 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.

Not true. If you mark had1 as "bootable" (using fdisk, for example)
then (notwithstanding BIOS bugs) that should work fine. (It does for
me.) I started doing this after I read some article advocating this
approach. I don't remember the full rationale or the author, but I
actually like the idea of not messing with the first block of the
drive.

Cheers.

Jim