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I have had this problem with slackware in the past basically you need to choose install to master boot record when deciding where to boot from. The installer does put you off by saying it is possibly unsafe but this is only because it can be in some cases. You also need to ensure that you MBR protection disabled in bios (also sometimes called virus protection etc). Once you manage to get it installed it is a good distro quickly improve your linux knowledge! On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 20:54 +0000, Terry Hill wrote: > This is the thing..using the slackware setup utility, it advises you > to take the option to install to the boot partition, rather than the > MBR - i'd never heard of putting a boot loader anywhere but the MBR. > Option 3 in the choice list gives something like "MBR - This might be > unstable", which is news to me. The tag "MBR" itself is a bit of a > giveaway. I went for the non MBR install just to see what happened > really. > > Thanks for the link Paul, just off to have a read now - and i'll check > the slackbook to see if theres anything there - could just be a simple > case of me skim-reading the option given ;) > > Thanks for your time both :) > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html