Cant get LILO to work

[GeneralChaos]

Ive been playing with a linux server and although I can get everything working on the server itself, LILO will not boot.

Ive been told to use grub, but thats a bad way out as im trying to learn, thats just avoiding so I want to make LILO run.

Anyway, I had boot=/dev/hda and root=/dev/hda1. ive tried just running the lilconfig in simple mode but that doesnt work.

I have it installed to the MBR. standard frame buffer console and all that. Everyone tells me it should work, and ive followed step by step tutorials that have pictures, and it works for them but not me. I still have to have the slackware cd inserted, and still have to type "root =/dev/hda1 noinitrd ro" at the boot prompt to load.

I also dont have a floppy drive on this server, and one shouldnt be required.

What is going on here? Any suggestions?

Im using slackware 10.0

 

[charles@pcfix]

boot = /dev/hda # or your root partition
delay = 10 # delay, in tenth of a second (so you can interact)
vga = 0 # optional. Use "vga=1" to get 80x50
#linear # try "linear" in case of geometry problems.

image = /boot/vmlinux # your zImage file
root = /dev/hda1 # your root partition
label = Linux # or any fancy name
read-only # mount root read-only

other = /dev/hda4 # your dos partition, if any
table = /dev/hda # the current partition table
label = dos # or any non-fancy name