Hey, I'm fairly new to Slack, having only attempted to use it once before.

I am currently trying to install it on an old HP OmniBook 4150.

It installs fine, no errors reported. However I am running into issues on boot. It hangs during kernel boot while going through agpgart.

I know I need to compile a kernel and replace the default one installed by slack.
How do I do this when I can't boot my system?

hi there,

your pc probably has no agp support and the agp module is loaded by default.
( maybe that causes the prob. )

you might want to edit the file "/etc/rc.d/rc.modules ".
comment out ( put a "#" before ) the line " /sbin/modprobe agpgart "

you can boot from cd, mount your partition and edit the file.

egag

This is insane. I can boot fine from the cd, passing root=/dev/hda3. Yet I cannot seem to get at /etc/rc.d/rc.modules!
It keps telling me that fstab and mtab don't contain it! Also, what editors does Slack provide?

Could someone perhaps list out exactly what I should do. I realize this is a rather newbish thing to ask, but I'm at the end of my sanity here.

To recap:
Installed Slack 10.1 no errors

Boot hangs immediately:

linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) jeff hartmann
agpgart: maximum main memory to use for agp memory : 94mb
agpgart: detected Intel 440bx chipset
[HANGS]

I need this comp for school.....so any help would be greatly appreciated!

just a suggestion...boot from the install disk, and at the prompt, try typing:

bare.i root=/dev/hdX noinitrd ro agp=no
(with X being whatever partition it's loaded on...)

Unfortunateyl it ran up to the same error

Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartman
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 96M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
[HANGS]

Can I pass agp=no to the install cd kernel? I would guess not based on this attempt.

You may be able to. It doesn't hurt to try....

You might also try booting in runlevel 1. At the LILO prompt, type "Linux 1". If it boots in RL1, you can edit rc.modules and comment out the agpgart line.

Hmmm....

No luck once again. runlevel one hangs in the same spot.....
agp=no hung as well

Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartman
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 96M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
[HANGS]

if you can boot from cd, try to use pico.

type from the command line " pico /etc/rc.d/rc.modules "
( pico is a simple to use editor )

egag

Hmm... you were able to boot the install CD, right?

Boot the install CD, and mount your new installation in /mnt somewhere. Let's assume it's in /mnt/hd (since I don't know the /mnt structure on the install CD). Now go to /mnt/hd/etc/rc.d and chmod -X rc.modules.

That'll prevent it from running at all so you can boot your system. Once you're booted in your system, go in and comment out the agpgart modprobe line in it, and set the permissions back to 700.

gl.

OK got into slack (finally). Opened up rc.modules. comented out AGP and it now works!!

Thanks a ton to killerbob and all others who helped out a hopeless newb