Slakware 8.1 install prob
 

Ok I just installed slak 8.1 everything went well, I ran through the whole setup process, installed all the packages I wanted and rebooted, on reboot I get invalid system disk, insert system disk! Ok so before I go through the whole setup process again am I missing some vital step that is preventing me from booting properly? Do I need a boot disk just to start slakware? I recently had RH 7.2 installed on this box, thx for the help

Just noticed - when I boot up, It isnt detecting my Hard drives anymore, so I guess this is the problem. In installing slak what could alter somthing in my BIOS that prevents it from seeing my Hard drives?

hmmm... i've never encountered that problem... but did you go back to your BIOS and try to auto-detect your hard disks again?

oh yea... and your post will probably get more attention in the slackware sub-forum in the Distributions forum...

if the mod is up and about, could you move this thread?

Yea I went into my BIOS and tried the auto detect, didn't work, I entered in the Hard drive specs manually and it gave me a hard drive failure on both drives.

tundra -- cool you jets, the kid has a problem.
Just because it happen after he installed Slack, doesn't mean its a Slack problem. This sound like a hardware problem. Check all you cables. Does BOIS see your CD drive? A better forum might in fact be the hardware?

What happens if you try to restart the install process (cdrom or floppy) watch the boot messages . If you have one drive then

/dev/hda will be your harddrive
/dev/hdb will be your CD

I been using Linux for 7 years and never heard of it touching BIOS either

Turns out you you were right, wasn't slak that caused my HD failure, I had my old linux box running for a few weeks, guess this was too much for my ancient HD's. Know I put a new harddrive in and everything works great.

hm? did i sound rude? sorry about that. i thought he wanted to ask slackers , tho i didn't think it was slack that did it.

Slack would never do anything bad to your hardware :p

Sounds like you blew a drive, was your box acting wierd befoer this, random crashing? Odd noises from the disks? Anything?

I had this problem when I use to run BSD, however I have changed OS's a few times since then and had no problems, the drives are ancient so I guess it's to be expected. Weird how both times it's happened right before installing a new OS