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cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:
>
> I have a rather new CDRW drive connected to IDE.
>  insmod ide-cd
>  insmod ide-scsi
>  insmod scsi_mod
>  insmod sg
>  insmod sr_mod
>  insmod loop
>  insmod iso9660

That last one is not necessary -- the BL2 kernel already 
has iso9660 capability.  

> The device file name representing your CD-Writer has to 
> be passed to the driver in the Linux kernel. 
> Example: hdb=ide-scsi.  Such a setting should be added
> to lilo.conf 

Usually such configuration data can be put on the loadlin
line as a paremeter.  It's worth a try.

> There is a very minimalized lilo packet for BL 1.x. 
> Do you think that this would be compatible with 
> Slackware 7.1 

No.  The BL1 lilo requires libc5.

Cheers,
Steven