I have a desktop and I just installed slack 9. It worked after the first couple of reboots, but then when i changed one of my windows hard drives in fstab to mount to /mnt/win_d (instead of /mtn/win_d which i put on accident in the install) it hangs on boot every time i try to start it up, whether from floppy or hard drive. It hangs after Setting hardware clock (local time) or something like that. I had trouble with Mandrake 9.1 hanging on boot also, so i wonder if it's more than just the distro. Does anyone have an idea what it could be?

Is it possible you can provide the error messages that appeared? From the error messages, there should be someone that can give you a better help to this problem.

There weren't any error messages that i saw. I tried to switch to the other consoles but i guess they weren't enabled. It just loads like everything's normal, then it hangs after that hardware clock message.

This is very strange problem. You did not change anything else?? Say rebuild the kernel? I suggest get the Slackware 1 CD, follow the instruction at first prompt. There is instruction where you can use the Slackware 1 CD kernel image to boot the system, at the same time specify where you root partition is.

After you boot into the system, goto /etc/ and see the files you have last modified, maybe there is some syntax error that you did not aware.

Hope this help...

You should do as ghostdancer suggests, using some sort of boot disk (I recommend Tom's root/boot, google for it), then just comment out the line in /etc/fstab referring to /mnt/win_d. Then try rebooting and mounting it manually to see if you get any meaningful error messages.

What type of file system are you trying to mount? NTFS or FAT?

Or maybe you need to create the mount point /mnt/win_d, since the install may have created /mtn/win_d.

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere