Scott wrote:
>
> Yesterday, I removed lilo 22.4 and installed lilo 22.5 from the
> extras directory. Afterwards, the same routine described above for
> setting up the MBR was used. Only this time, instead of seeing the
> boot menu on reboot, lilo spit out an error like this "L 01 01 01 01
> 01...". Not good. I tried a few things to remedy this, looked over
> the docs and man pages and still no solution. Finally, as a last
> ditch effort, I removed 22.5, re-installed 22.4, used liloconfig to
> set up the MBR, rebooted, and was greeted with a proper boot menu.
> It worked without a hitch.
>
> Is there some sort of major change to lilo 22.5 as opposed to 22.4
> that I missed? An option perhaps? Has anyone else run into this
> before? The procedure described above is just way to simple even for
> this newbie to muck up.
>
> Any or all suggestions greatly appreciated.

I use lilo-2.5.7.2 and have no problems with it. If you are
interested in trying a lilo.SlackBuild script I have let me know
and I'll post a link.

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