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[Jeffrey Valcher <jvalcher AT gmail.com>]

I'm attempting to run basiclinux from LILO.

I have a feeling that I'm making this way more complicated than it
really is.  Try to not to laugh too hard. :)
I ran the program Copy Commander and set up a more the generous Linux,
ext2, 1,300MB partition (hda2)
I ran all the necessary mke2fs and mkswap (hda3). 
I ran the BAS-HD.tgz program.
I then mounted /dev/hda2 to /hd.  
I copied /boot/boot.b to /hd/boot.  
I copied the zimage to /hd/boot.  
I edited the lilo.conf :

boot=/dev/hda2
root=/dev/hda2
install=/boot/boot.b
image=/boot/zimage
   label=BL3
   root=/dev/hda2
   initrd=/sbin/init    <--(wasn't too sure about this)
   read-write

I remembered reading somewhere that I had to go to /sbin and type
'lilo' to configure it.  When I did this it came up with "Sorry, don't
know how to handle device 0x0100.  This could be one (of many) of my
problems. :)

I edited /etc/fstab :

/dev/hda2   /       ext2    defaults  1  1
/dev/fd0     /fd     noauto msdos   0  0
/dev/hda3  swap swap    defaults 0  0
proc         /proc  proc     defaults 0  0

Having done all this I made hda2 bootable with fdisk and it promptly
came up with: Warning: partition 2 has empty type. I ignored this,
(w)rote it to disk, and rebooted my laptop.  It would end up stopping
with the blinking " _ " prompt.
I'm relatively new to Linux so try not to assume I have done things
that would seem basic to setting up LILO that I haven't mentioned
above.  I've never set up LILO before, and I'm still a bit hazy on the
boot process.  In case it matters, my laptop is an old Thinkpad 755cx
(sans cd drive).