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Posted: May 13 2005,21:59 QUOTE
My 1st post (the long one at the top) explains how/why I am booting from an hd install. (bios does not support boot from cd and I don't have a floppy drive).  

lilo is not accepting cheatcodes ( boot parameters ) directly from the lilo prompt.  It seems as though lilo is trying to BOOT the cheatcode (ie.  failsafe ) rather than APPLY the cheatcode while booting dsl.  Hence,  the error stated in my previous post:

no such image.  [tab] shows a list.

The 'list' that the error refers to is the list of possible images or distributions that lilo has avaliable to boot.  dsl is the only item in the list.  
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Posted: May 13 2005,22:49 QUOTE
OK,

You should be able to boot DSL from your other computer and make the fix and then remove the adapter and put it back into your computer.

Otherwise, the "failsafe" cheatcode is like shorthand for the following cheatcodes:

dsl vga=normal atapicd noscsi nosound nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp xmodule=vesa

Maybe you can type this instead of "failsafe" and it will boot.  Who knows.
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Posted: May 14 2005,08:21 QUOTE
I tried the "failsafe" cheatcode in longform and got the same result 'kernel panic' etc.  Thanx for the suggestion! :)  Eventhough it didn't work  :(

I guess I'll pull the harddrive out again and boot it up in my desktop to see if all is still well with the hd install.
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Posted: May 22 2005,05:47 QUOTE
Okay,  success!! :)   It's working!  I am posting this so that others might not make the same mistakes I made.  And actually I remember seeing this somewhere else on the forms.

Do not use the '  toram  '  boot option if you are going to do an   '  hdinstall  ' or a '  frugal install  '
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