[BenWasTaken]

Well, a couple months ago I installed Mandrake 9.1 dual booting with Windows XP and everything went find. Just recently I decided I wanted to go ahead and try out Slackware. But now, whenever I install Slack i always get the L99 error on bootup. Thinking maybe something over wrote my LILO in MBR i reinstalled it to the MBR but still got the same error. I'm not really sure what else I can do. I'm able to modify anything through Knoppix, that's about it.

It's Slackware 9.1

I don't have a floppy drive either.

[BenWasTaken]

Here's my lilo.conf if it helps any:

# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
boot = /dev/hda5
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
#prompt
#timeout = 5
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
vga = 773
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
# ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda5
label = Slackware91
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda2
label = WindowsXP
table = /dev/hda
# DOS bootable partition config ends

[BenWasTaken]

Ok I fixed it on my 7th time installing.

All I needed to do was to put LILO in my MBR in the beginning, instead of root then trying to move it.

I'm not able to startx though, or XFree86 -configure, or xf86config. It's saying it doesn't exist. Any suggestions would be nice.

[codejockey]

On my slackware distribution (also 9.1), xf86config is in /usr/X11R6/bin; you might check to see if it appears there on your system. If it does, the problem is likely in your PATH setting; you should add /usr/X11R6/bin to your PATH variable. If you're using the bash shell, you can add a statement such as: PATH=${PATH}:/usr/X1R6/bin to your .profile or .bashrc file, so that this directory will be added every time you login. If you don't have xf86config in /usr/X11R6/bin, you can try the following as root from the command line: find / -name "xf86config*" which should show you the location of all files beginning with xf86config. If the command returns no results, you may not have installed X-windows when you installed slackware.

Hope this helps.