Can't boot after fresh install of Slackware

Darvocet · 02-22-2003, 05:16 PM

Hi, I am new to linux, hence the board, and just installed Slackware on a dual os machine (vmware). After installation, I created my bootdisk fine, when vmware quit with an unrecoverable error. After restarting, the OS just responds with no system disk present. Any idea why this is happening?

watashiwaotaku7 · 02-22-2003, 09:37 PM

vmware had an error? then maybe slack didnt finish installing all the way, you might want to try reinstalling it then

Darvocet · 02-22-2003, 10:00 PM

The error seems to be related to making the boot disk under vmware. When I skipped this step I completely finished the installation, and when asked to reboot, did so. With the same error 'There is no bootable operating system'. Slackware isn't officially supported by vmware, however I have a friend that uses the two. I am now downloading Mandrake, I will see if this works any better for me.