Installation help needed
 

Hi,

My system is running on Windows 2000. I've downloaded Slackware and have made the boot and root disks. I've installed and setup successfully (after much try and error). I did not set up Lilo and intend to boot from boot disk. I made the boot disk.

Now I cannot boot Linux :( I need to run both OS in the same computer.

I got this prompt after booting

boot:

and I entered mount root=/dev/hda5 ro

I got an error message saying an error has occurred during root filesystem check and that I can login as a single user to solve it

I can either type cntrl-d or login it for system maintenance. When I type cntrl-d, there is some error and the system reboot again.
I don't know what should I do at system maintenance mode.

Please help....

Thanks

It sounds like the file system was not unmounted properly and is not clean. The boot is scanning the partition and has found something wrong that shuld not be handle automatically and blindly. If you can login at single user mode then follow below. If not boot the full disk set that used for the install and then login as root like you did when you installed the system. Then try the command below. I am not sure if all of these programs are on the root disks or not though.

To scan an ext2 file system use the command:

e2fsck -f /dev/hda5

If other file system then use

fsck -t fs_type /dev/hda5

The commands above do have a tendency to only really apply if the file system was fully operational before. If you have not used it all and just completed the installation, it may be a corrupt installation and it is not recoverable. Then it might be better to wipe it out and try again rather than have a questionable system.

I use slack 8.1. Here's how I dual boot with Win98SE. I have a 30gig Harddrive. Using DOS fdisk I split it into two 15 gig sections and formatted them both FAT32. Then I installed Windows to the first partition. Then I put the slack CD in my bootable CD-RW drive and rebooted firing up the boot: prompt. Setup my partitions on the 2nd partition with Linux fdisk creating 120MB swap and the rest Linux ROOT. Then I typed SETUP and installed Slack. Now using LILO (which I chose to install to the MBR of the Harddisk) I can boot into either Windows or Linux. Don't know if it will be the same for Windows2000 but works fine for me with WIN/Slack dual boot on my machine. :)


peace