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I was in hell when trying to get LILO installed on a CCISS driver, which is how HP SmartArray RAID card recognized as. No matter I installed LILO to MBR or Boot Record, it always failed.

Here is my solution:

1. After installing Slackware finished, reboot server with Installation CD.
2. At prompt, input:
   1. hugesmp.s root=/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 rdinit= ro
   Change hugesmp.s to your kernel if necessary. c0d0p2 means second partition of logical drive 0 on controller 0, which is my "/" partition.
3. Login as root, modify /etc/lilo.conf. Change boot = /dev/sda to boot = /dev/cciss/c0d0p2.
4. Run the command:
   1. lilo -M /dev/cciss/c0d0 mbr
   2. lilo

Reboot to check if everthing is right.