simonp@nospam.com wrote:
> Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> wrote:
>
>> The only advantage of a Slackware based live rescue CD against other
>> distributions specialized on being live CDs is that the Slackware live CD
>> had an environment that both from the users and from the hardwares points
>> of view looked almost as a Slackware installation.
>>
>> regards Henrik
>>
>
> This is what is needed. My laptop wasn't able to mount the fs
> after I recompiled a 12.0 kernel and went into a kernel panic. I
> need to change lilo, but this would have to be done from a rescue
> cd. I am using slax now, but it has different pathnames that
> confuse lilo, even with the -C option. Hopefully, this will not
> be problem with the slackware rescue cd.
>
> I remembered there used to be a livecd, and just wondered if it
> was still on d3 or d4, since I don't usually download them.
>
> Thank you,
> Simon
>
>
I think it is possible to use lilo from the slackware 12.0 installation
CD, provided that the partition containing the kernels has been mounted