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Old 03-17-2006, 02:41 AM   #1
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Can someone help me please? (probably simple)

Hi!

I installed Slackware. Now, lilo loads up when i boot and i choose linux.
A bunch of messages go by and it stops. These are the last 4 i get (i picked the last 4 because it seemed the only ones that are error messages)

Kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8 errno=2
VFS: cannot open root device "806" or 08:06
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 08:06




Can anyone help? Thanks!
 
Old 03-17-2006, 07:55 AM   #2
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Support for your root partition's filesystem is not installed, or you have selected the wrong kernel off of the installation CD. Is you main hard drive SATA by chance?
 
Old 03-17-2006, 12:05 PM   #3
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Support for your root partition's filesystem is not installed, or you have selected the wrong kernel off of the installation CD. Is you main hard drive SATA by chance?
Hello and thanks for helping.

Yes, it is a SATA.
I booted the cd with sata.i and scsi.s though.
 
Old 03-17-2006, 12:12 PM   #4
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Support for your root partition's filesystem is not installed, or you have selected the wrong kernel off of the installation CD. Is you main hard drive SATA by chance?
Hello and thanks for helping.

Yes, it is a SATA hd.
I booted the cd with sata.i and scsi.s though.

On installation, i selected the default kernel from the boot cd.

How can i fix this? (ps: sorry about the double post. i meant to edit the other, not make a new reply)
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Old 03-17-2006, 03:25 PM   #5
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The 'default' may be something that doesn't support SATA. try running the setup proggie again and choose the SATA.I kernel manually this time.
 
Old 03-17-2006, 03:28 PM   #6
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The 'default' may be something that doesn't support SATA. try running the setup proggie again and choose the SATA.I kernel manually this time.

Thank you. Ill try that right now.
Where is the SATA.I kernel located? Is it in one of the 4 CD's?
 
Old 03-17-2006, 03:29 PM   #7
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Should be in the #1 CD along with the rest of the kernels.
 
Old 03-17-2006, 04:58 PM   #8
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Should be in the #1 CD along with the rest of the kernels.
Yes, thanks it worked.
Another quick newbie question: How do i load KDE, since everything's in command-line mode.
 
Old 03-17-2006, 05:08 PM   #9
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You can run xwmconfig as root (for system wide), or as your user account (for just that user) to choose your default window manager. After you select kde in that, startx should do the trick. Just have to make sure your xorg.conf is properly setup as well, which has been a while since I did it, but it was either xorgsetup or xorgconf and pretty sure it needs to be run as root.
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Old 03-17-2006, 05:28 PM   #10
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Ok.
I did xwmconfig. Selected KDE, then typed startx. when i run startx, i get a bunch of error messages.

Could it be because my xorg.conf isnt set up properly?

some of the error messages are:
(ee) mouse0: cannot open input device

Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices


Thanks for the continued support. If you can keep helping please do, thanks

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server "0:0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining
 
Old 03-18-2006, 12:00 PM   #11
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Yes, it sounds like xorg.conf isn't set up properly. Just run the config script again and try a few different answers on the mouse question, testing KDE each time. You will find the right combination quickly.
 
Old 03-18-2006, 03:30 PM   #12
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Yes, it sounds like xorg.conf isn't set up properly. Just run the config script again and try a few different answers on the mouse question, testing KDE each time. You will find the right combination quickly.
HEY!
Thanks for replying.
I RTFM and they suggested putting "AllowMouseOpenFail" "1" in the config file, and it worked for me.

Did some research on installing X windows, and got it to work.

The only thing is slackware isn't recognizing my mouse. I actually made a thread about it here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=426080
in case you know anything to help fix it.

Thanks for your support!
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