Boot Up problems
Hi, I just got a computer from a friend. I put my old Hard Drive in it which has Slackware, but I cant get it to boot up. Help please!
MSI motherboard Western Digital SATA HD |
I would try booting to a Live Cd of something just to ensure that the computer will boot and that the old hard drive can be mounted and read.
If they do, please come back with more information, such as: Where exactly does the boot process fail and what, if any error, messages are posted? What version of Slackware is on that old hard drive? What make/model computer and what model motherboard with which processor and how many RAMs? |
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Slackware installation has the option to install or not to install the boot loader; now, as far as you can remember "did you install Lilo bootloader or not"? Please post us the answers to this question first: 1. What version of Slackware you have installed? 2. Did the installation give no error message? or did installation reached completion without any issue? 3. Did the installer boot your hardware without any issue? To share my experience: I always avoided installation of Lilo because I opted for Grub bootloader (just a matter of personal choice, nothing in between, I only preferred to learn the more powerful boot loader, Grub 1 (legacy) and then today Grub 2.) So if you did not install the grub boot loader you can boot again the installer and look for the grub2----.txz and install it this way-- Code:
~# installpkg grub2*txz <Enter> Until you will let us know more about what you have done and what are the answers of above questions we wouldn't be able to help much. Hope that helps. Good luck. |
Hi ,
1. Check if the CURRENT MOTHERBOARD [of your friend's] and your previous MOTHERBOARD are same or at least belong to same family. I have faced this issue.....If the motherboard are of different chipset/family your hard disk wont boot. 2. Also if possible check the HDD with your previous MOTHERBOARD , so that you are sure that HDD is functional Ashish [Banglore /India] |
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