Can't Install after Slackware LILO took over my drive
I installed Slackware and when there were 3 options regarding LILO I believe I took the third, b/c that's what was selected. I think it said the other 2 were safer. My mistake. :(
I would have tried slackware but I hear it's significantly harder to configure and use than other newbie-friendlier distros and I had OpenSUSE before and I want it back. I tried now twice to install it, however, but the Slackware LILO remains in place. :( I even tried repartitioning and formatting the hard drive as part of the process. What should I do now? After installing OpenSUSE, LILO kicks in and tries to run Slackware and then I get: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1) If it helps I have lying around here Ubuntu, Mandriva, Debian and PCLinuxOS install CDs, all brand newly burned. |
Did you tell OpenSuse to put its bootloader on the main boot record?
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I thought so. What I did was I used the rescue shell and deleted all partitions with fdisk and then did:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=2 that I got from http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:How_to_Uninstall_Linux and then reinstalled. Seems to work fine now! ThankS!!! |
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