I very clearly remember my very first version of Slackware -- pre 3.0.0 (which I actually bought on cd for a few bucks). I don't remember that first version, ju

I very clearly remember my very first version of Slackware -- pre 3.0.0 (which I actually bought on cd for a few bucks). I don't remember that first version, just that I downloaded the floppy disk sets over zmodem at 14.4kbps (thankfully saving to hard disk, not to floppy). That first version of Slackware I used had the Linux kernel 1.2.8; IIRC that series went to 1.2.13 before going through the a.out->ELF transition. Anyway, original point, that Slackware distro of 1.2.8 had a bug where every single time I had to reinstall the bootloader for a newly-compiled Linux kernel (which I had to do regularly), LILO was broken and hung at the `LI` prompt... those who were there may remember, the number of letters of LILO: that were output gave a sign to the source of the error. But every single time, I had to rescue boot, and try to remember what I had to fix to make LILO work again.