[ale] Almost home with Slack-9.1

[johnmills at speakeasy.net (John Mills)]

ALErs -

I seem to have a modest but viable Slackware-9.1 installation on my humble 
Toshiba 430CDT after no more than the usual number of pratfalls, and no 
major faceplants. All in all, it was smooth so far. (Haven't fired up 
XFree86 yet, though ...)

I chose to boot from the Linux partition's superblock as counseled by the 
installer, but I Lilo doesn't seem to find it and I hand at the 'LI' 
prompt and must still boot with the floppy.

My '/etc/lilo.conf' stipulates:
 boot=/dev/hda1
 and I used 'fdisk' to toggle the 'bootable' flag on this partition, but 
don't seem to get there.

What additional pixie dust do I need here, or is it perhaps a basic 
problem with my laptop?

If I go to booting with the MBR, how do I put a boot image in place?

TIA.

 - John Mills
   john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu