Article 6FEX2 LILO boot stuck at DHCP

LILO boot stuck at DHCP

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JinxsDad
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I can't get Slackware 15 to boot because LILO is stuck at DHCP:

DHCPCHECK of 192.168.0.14 from 192.168?0.1
bound to 192.168.0.14 -- renewal in 1485 seconds

And it's stopped there. I tried unplugging the cat6 cable and rebooting ... it got stuck waiting for a network. Plugged cat6 back in, it saw the network, but still wouldn't boot.

I had hard coded ip addresses in my router, thought maybe Slackware didn't like that, so I logged on to the router from Mint and removed the entry for my Slackware system. No help, no change. Edit: I hard coded the IP addresses to what each system was already using.

I was going to use the installation dvd to boot into a live session, but even the tiny pin that forces a boot into bios (to put the DVD drive back on top of the boot process), and it still went straight to LILO with one option: Linux.

How can I resolve this?

Thanks
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