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> Message from Steven
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>   
> > when I boot BasicLinux from the HDD I get the 
> > welcome screen, but instead of getting "Press 
> > Enter to activate this console" I get nothing, 
> > just a blinking cursor.  Nothing I type gets 
> > printed on the screen, 
> >     
>
> Strange error.  The fact that you get the welcome
> screen indicates that the kernel has booted OK 
> and /etc/rc has successfully executed.  At this 
> point the most common error is:  "no more tasks 
> -- sleeping forever" (which is caused by putting 
> read-only in /etc/lilo.conf).
>
> I assume you haven't put read-only in /etc/lilo.conf.
>
> I wonder if the bootloader in your MBR is having 
> an effect.  Do you have any idea which bootloader 
> is currently in your MBR?  DOS?  LILO?  GRUB?
>
> Have you got anything else running on this computer?
> If BL3 is the only thing you want to run, I suggest
> you edit /etc/lilo.conf to boot directly from the MBR.
> Afterwards you will need to execute: lilo -v
>
> Cheers,
> STeven
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Well it's definitely marked read-write, so I suppose I'll try having 
LILO boot from the MBR.
How exactly would I go about this?
There's no other partition (outside of swap) on this computer, as I am 
not interested in dual booting.