01 01 01 01 01 01 -_-
I am very new to not just linux but especially to slackware. I finally made it through the install and when I go to reboot for the first time the screen just prints "01 01 01" over and over, and nothing else happens. I am completly stumped about the whole process. I tried to run setup again and reconfigure slackware, but to no avail. Any help is greatly appreciated I am dieing to dive into slackware!
-Steve |
Did you use lilo as your boot manager? I'm not sure but I remember ages ago I had lilo as my boot manager and I screwed up my partitions majorly and that's what I got when I turned on my machine. I fixed it with fdisk /mbr because back then I still ran Windows which saved my ass.
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I honestly couldnt tell you for sure. I just closed my eyes and gunned it through the setup, selecting only the defaults.
What should I double check with my partitions with fdisk to make sure thatsd not the problem? -Steve |
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...442#post263442
Did you have another linux installed previously? Cheers, Tink |
Thanks Tink,
But what now? I don't understand how to resolve the problem. Thanks for the help thus far and I hope you bare with me! ^_^ -Steve |
What was the sitation on the box before the install
of Slack? Previous lilo-installs from a different distro? If I remember right (I've never used the default) Slack installs to the installations root partition ... thus the message you see can't be from Slack's lilo if you followed all defaults ... to resolve the issue boot with the 2nd slack CD (select the partition where you installed to) and edit your /etc/lilo.conf Where is says something like boot = /dev/hdx1 change it to your first hdd without a number, e.g. boot = /dev/hda Cheers, Tink |
I booted from the 2nd CD and the prompt reads root@rescuedisc: but I cannot figure out how to edit that file, sorry I am trying to dump my microsoft ways, lol.
-Steve |
I tried using mcedit to open lilo.conf, but when I say to open that file it shows nothing.
Before I installed slack I had tried many different OSs, debian, red hat, etc... -Steve |
Boot the 2nd CD again, and at the console you have the recovery version of Linux up so you need to access the Linux installed on your hard drive. You should know the partition you installed Slackware onto (such as root is in /dev/hda2) and you can mount that partition into the rescue CD's tree:
mkdir /mnt/hd mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hd Then you can edit the lilo.conf from there (vi /mnt/hd/etc/lilo.conf) and change the line to boot = /dev/hda. After editing the file, you can optionally wipe the current MBR with: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 But make sure you type that in correctly, especially with the count=1 or it starts to wipe your whole hard drive! Whether you chose to wipe the current MBR or not, getting lilo on the MBR should be as easy as typing: lilo -C /mnt/hd/etc/lilo.conf or if for some reason lilo isn't on the rescue CD: /mnt/hd/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/hd/etc/lilo.conf |
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