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04-14-2018, 04:05 PM	#16
Didier Spaier LQ Addict Registered: Nov 2008 Location: Paris, France Distribution: Slint64-15.0 Posts: 11,077 Rep:	Probably, with a patch similar to this one.

04-14-2018, 04:07 PM	#17
Darth Vader Senior Member Registered: May 2008 Location: Romania Distribution: DARKSTAR Linux 2008.1 Posts: 2,727 Rep:	My sincere apologies, I wasn't aware about that, how I never tried to use LILO with an eMMC.

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Probably, with a patch similar to this one.

And could you tell me how to use the patch? I never used a .diff. Plus I do not have a running Slackware OS. The patch should be done by Arch.

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And could you tell me how to use the patch? I never used a .diff. Plus I do not have a running Slackware OS. The patch should be done by Arch.

Nope, this patch is for NVMe, nobody made yet a patch for eMMC.

BTW, I have an idea: you can boot from a small USB flash? IF YES, you can make an USB boot flash disk. And no, do not ask me how to do this on Arch.

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And could you tell me how to use the patch? I never used a .diff. Plus I do not have a running Slackware OS. The patch should be done by Arch.

You really should be asking the Arch people on how to get lilo working on Arch. Many of us have absolutely no experience with Arch.

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And could you tell me how to use the patch? I never used a .diff. Plus I do not have a running Slackware OS. The patch should be done by Arch.

After 3,752 posts in 11 years on this forum, it appears that you have not really touched the basics of working with a Linux computer. You have some learning to do, and you need to do that fast if your are going to use Arch instead of Slackware.

As others said before me: please ask the moderators to move this thread to the Arch Linux forum. It does not belong here.

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04-16-2018, 05:46 AM

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But Slackware.com gives a .txz package, and using tar to extract the files I get a very complicated tree.

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And could you tell me how to use the patch? I never used a .diff. Plus I do not have a running Slackware OS. The patch should be done by Arch.

As a general comment it is probably easier to figure out which files from the txz are needed and where to put them (the package is not that complicated) than to research how to apply patches and compile from source.

04-16-2018, 06:18 AM	#23
hazel LQ Guru Registered: Mar 2016 Location: Harrow, UK Distribution: LFS, AntiX, Slackware Posts: 7,681 Blog Entries: 19 Rep:	Another possibility is to get source code from the Crux repository. You will need two packages: lilo itself and bin86. A great advantage of piggybacking on Crux is that the Crux Pkgconfig files will give you suitable build configuration choices.

04-16-2018, 06:24 AM	#24
michaelk Moderator Registered: Aug 2002 Posts: 25,784 Rep:	Moved: This thread is more suitable in Arch and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

04-16-2018, 05:11 PM	#25
stf92 Senior Member Registered: Apr 2007 Location: Buenos Aires. Distribution: Slackware Posts: 4,442 Original Poster Rep:	I have finally been able to run lilo from Arch. I have done an unsuccessful slackware current install but the needed packages are all there. Setup installed them. I just mounted the slackware partition in /mnt and ran /mnt/sbin/lilo -v -t successfully. What happens after booting and choosing the OS from the lilo prompt is another matter, which I'll treat in another thread.

04-17-2018, 07:33 PM	#26
rob.rice Senior Member Registered: Apr 2004 Distribution: slack what ever Posts: 1,076 Rep:	the only reply this guy should get from us is RTFM with a link to the manual
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