Yes, I only edited the configuration file of lilo. Not quite sure what else went wrong with the upgrade but I gave up trying to find a fix and simply reinstalled from a CD. That went well and I am up and running again. Whew! I am really getting an education here.

OK, I am getting nowhere with this.

Slackware CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT pointed me in a couple of directions but, after much googleing, I still have not resolved the issue.

I changed permissions for Hal to ensure it could be read:
chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.hald
/etc/rc.d/rc.hald start

No change.

I ...

I followed the instructions on the wiki to upgrade Salix 13.1 to 13.37 x86_64 xfce. All seemed to go well. After shutting down and rebooting I got to the login screen but my keyboard would not work. It is a standard English HP USB keyboard that worked fine before and works fine in BIOS. I tried ...