Slackware installation process goes without a hitch (sort of).

However, I skip the part where I am asked to create a bootdisk.

After everything else is completed in the install process I restart my machine.

When I boot, I boot into GRUB and not the OS?

Any idea why? Should I have created that boot disk to boot the kernel?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Mike

anyone?

Slackware installation process goes without a hitch (sort of).

However, I skip the part where I am asked to create a bootdisk.

After everything else is completed in the install process I restart my machine.

When I boot, I boot into GRUB and not the OS?

Any idea why? Should I have created that boot disk to boot the kernel?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Mike

Any commands for GRUB that need to executed?

Always a good idea to create a bootdisk. You can create one after install with syslinux. Do a search on grub and you will find help for setting it up.

The slackware cd should work as a bootdisk. Put in the cd, turn on, and then at the boot= prompt type "root=/dev/xxx".

It's because grub is in your MBR.

You need to use a boot disk that gives you an environment(morphix, bbc linux, damnsmall linux) or if you have slackware disk 2 it is a live cd as well, and then mount the hard drive, chroot onto it.
Then do these commands:
"lilo -A /dev/hda1"
replace hda1 with whatever your hard drive is

That activates the partition and should now load lilo on boot. During the install of slackware you chose to install lilo to "root" instead of "MBR".

After booting with the Lilo floppy, using startx I was able to boot into KDE.

Namaseit:

So will this "lilo -A /dev/hda1" cmd allow this kernel to boot from the hda1?

Also, I have recently started an installation of Fedora. I was wondering if part of that installation could still be there even though I formatted the drive with fdisk and partitioned the drive with cfdisk?

Thanks for your reply.

Mike-

mikedeatworld,

I have merged the two threads that you had open for this one question, one in the 'Slackware' forum and one in 'Slackware installation'. Please don't post the same question in more than one place, people will just waste time giving you the same answer in one thread as you've already had in the other.

cheers

Jamie...

First thanks for merging the threads.

Second. I have reinstalled slack. However this time I made the boot disk. I can boot with it and the OS loads into KDE with startx. However, I would like to install the kernel on the hda1 or another partition.

I have created a partition /boot of a 100MB and made this partition bootable. But i dont know how to install the kernel on this partition.

Should I make my root partition bootable and install the kernel there? IF so how do I install the kernel on this partition.

I guess my question is, how do I install the kernel so that it will boot of of my hard drive and not a floppy?

Thanks for the help!

Mike

Run liloconfig again and choose to install lilo to the MBR instead of to the floppy. Or manually edit /etc/lilo.conf and change the line
boot=/dev/fd0
to:
boot=/dev/hda
In liloconfig where it asks which partition to use as root point it to the / partition.
Then run
lilo -v -t
to verbosely test it. If no errors then run:
lilo or /sbin/lilo
to actually install lilo there.

you know...this answer was simple. install on the mbr. for some reason i did not select this option. thanks guys!