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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: LILO incompatibility with KVM?
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:57:24 -0500
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Andy Sy wrote:
> I am trying to install Slackware on KVM-based
> VPS hosting and keep getting a "LILO keytable read
> / checksum error" upon booting.
>
> Grub-based distros install fine on said VPS.

Are you using virtio disks?  It's probably that extboot doesn't 
implement enough int13 functions for LILO.

If you have the option, switching to an IDE disk may be a work around.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori