-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Firstly, having used lilo for a few years now, I haven't yet run into anything "dangerous" about it, so I don't know why the slackware setup screen for lilo says what it says. If you made a boot disk during setup as suggested, then you should just be able to pop that disk in your drive and boot from it. If not, then you could use the slackware cd to boot your new system. To do that, pop it in your cd-rom drive, and when you're at the boot prompt, type: mount root=/dev/hda1 ro speakup_synth=xxx I'm not sure what the layout of the 8.1 cd is like, since I haven't used it for a long time now, but I think typing mount should work. The above line assumes that your system was installed to /dev/hda1 (substitute the real device as appropriate), and of course replace the xxx with the keyword for your synth. Once you boot up, go ahead and run liloconfig to install lilo. You most likely won't have any problems installing lilo to the mbr either. Before you reboot though and see if lilo got installed correctly, I'd strongly recommend making a boot disk that you can just pop into your floppy drive and boot from. You would do this by typing: makebootdisk As for what mount, ramdisk, nokeymap, speakup.s, ETC. mean, they are kernel image labels, and are used by most, if not all linux boot loaders. These labels tell the boot loader which kernel image to boot. Also, labels give you the ability to specify which kernel image to boot, as well as letting you specify which parameters should be passed to each kernel image. This is why there are so many names like mount, and ramdisk, since each label is setup to tell the kernel image with which parameters it should boot. I realize this explanation may not be the best one, but I hope it makes sense, and clears some things up. Greg - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAoRia7s9z/XlyUyARAjDJAJ99JoVNhXgu5joXw3THMAG/cUnJJgCg35el UGvSham4mjejA4YTfOgNGFU= =3BCN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
