Slackware 10.2 Hangs on boot
 

The last line before it hangs is

agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chip set

I'm a total noob, I downloaded the DVD iso.
I installed every thing that it recommended.
I had no problems till it came to first boot time.

If there is anymore info I need to supply let me know and if its Linux specific tell me how to find it.

Thanks for any ideas.

Maxx

PS.

HP netserver

Duel P2 450 Mgz CPU's

383 mb Memory

DVD Rom

Nvidia GF 5500 128mb (PCI)

If your using an HP Netserver, then you probably have SCSI disk drives. Did you install one of the SCSI kernels? (Slackware installs the IDE-only kernel by default.)

It does have SCSI, but I'm not using it. I'm using a IDE WD hard drive. I though of this before I read your reply I'm reinstalling as I type this with the adaptec.s kernel because its adaptec SCSI . will let you know What I get. If theres anything else you can think of let me know.

So far theres no difference hangs in the same spot.

There isn't any DVD iso....maybe you should download from Slackware.com or use one of the official bittorrents. Slackware comes in 4 CD images. If you want pretty much everything, you can just download CDs 1 and 2. CD1 is the bootable image with many base packages. CD2 contains KDE and graphical UI stuff. The other CDs contains sources and extras.

http://www.slackware.hu/install-dvd unofficial DVD may be found here.

I did download all the cd iso's the problem came when I realised all I had was DVD-R disks and no CD-R

Yeah I also found it here ftp://ftp.slackware.no/pub/linux/ISO...e-10.2-DVD.iso

I have no problems through out the hole setup it installs with out a glitch. Boot up is the problem.

do you use an agp videocard*?

after " your last line " the agp aperture is checked ( or set ?).
take a look at the bios settings for agp aperture.
( mine is 64 MB, fwiw, it's a diff. system).

egag

Ther are no settings for my agp aperture in my bios. is there a way I can get linux to skip the AGP port?

yip.

edit the file "/etc/rc.d/rc.modules.
find the line "modprobe agpgart"
comment that one out, and it won't load.
( so make it "#modprobe agpgart" )

egag

ok newb question how do I do this if I can't get it to boot up?

I realy appreciate the help.

use the DVD you burnt to boot then mount the / driector where ever you linux install is, this with vi you can edit the file is the previous post. :)

I don't think the agp module is the problem, purely because I just today installed 10.2 on an old pc without agp. It complained in the start-up script, but carried on and works fine.

Sorry that I don't have any idea of the actual problem.

as said, you can boot from the cd or dvd and mount
your linux partition somewhere.

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(make a directory to mount the partition)

mkdir myslack

( mount it ; here the partition is hda1 and the filesystem is ext3;
change it to what you need)

mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /myslack
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you can then either edit the file, but i'm not sure wich editor you can use.
i think only "vi" will be there.
if you know how to use "vi" , edit the file,
else you can change the permissions for that file to nonexecutable, just to
boot your own system, like

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chmod -x /myslack/etc/rc.d/rc.modules
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evt. check if the chmod was a success with:
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ls -l /myslack/etc/rc.d/rc.modules
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you should see no "x"'-es in the permissions ( just rw).

after that try to boot as normal and edit the file.
you can then use "pico" to edit the file like :

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pico /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
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( pico is easy to use: arrows to move, type to edit,
ctrl-o to save, ctrl-x to quit)

finally restore the permissions with :

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chmod +x /myslack/etc/rc.d/rc.modules
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that should be it...

egag

How does the installer boot and not your installed version? Are you using the same kernel? Maybe you should try it.