Newbie questions about booting Slackware

[Gregory Nowak]

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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
 
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