I just did some installing last night and today and I still have a few problems.

Here is my partitioning:

hda1 windows xp
hda2 boot
hda3 swap
hda4 extended linux
hda5 / for FC2
hda6 / home
hda7 / for Slackware 10.0

I started with a PC that had windows XP already installed. I then installed FC2, and after FC2 installation, installed Slackware on a new partition (hda7) that I made using fdisk within the slackware installation.

I have two problems:

1)
Grub can't load slack.

Here is my grub configuration file:

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Slackware (2.4.26)
root (hd0,6)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.26 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.4.26.img
title Doze
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

I am not sure that the kernel I specified is correct. I think it is. I installed the default
bare.i from the 10.0 CDROM. If this is not the correct kernel, what shoud be specified
in grub?

2)
My mouse is all squirrely in Slack. I have tried a number of different configurations for it, I have tried two different mice, and it's ponderously slow, wiggly, and generally, but not completely unresponsive. Yes, I have searched for al thesimilar posts and tried different configurations: PS/2, IMPS/2, emulate three buttons, do not emulate three buttons, ZAxisMapping "4 5", buttons "5" etc. etc. and none of them are the correct combination. Is there something I've overlooked? My main mouse is the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 USB (with a serial adapter) and PS/2 Compatible. Should I buy another mouse that is definitely tried and true with Slackware 10.0?

Here is my current Slackware 10.0 xorg.conf, which does NOT work:

Indentifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" (have also tried PS/2)
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" (have also tried on)
Option "Buttons" 5 (have also tried 3 with the other mouse)
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

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(this is what I have in FC2, which works perfectly:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

)

Thanks!

With your slackware install, do you mount /boot to /dev/hda2 also or is it all in /dev/hda7? If you mount /boot then you will want root (hd0,1) for both of them, but pass the argument root=/dev/hda7 to the slackware kernel. If you don't mount boot, how big are your partitions? Your kernel has to be in the first 1024 cylinders or it won't boot (which is approximately the first 7.5GB of the hard drive.

Jeff

Oh, and for the mouse, try /dev/psaux instead of /dev/mouse

I can't remember if I mounted boot to hda2 in my slack installation. I don't think that I did. I did, however, install lilo on slack's /root. Currently I am using a boot floppy to get into slack.

My partitions are big: 25 GB for windows, 15 GB for FC2, 15 GB for /home, 1 MB for /boot, and 512 KB for swap. The rest of the 80GB is for slack on hda7.

I wasn't sure that the 1024 rule still applied.

Is there a way to fix this without reinstalling? And, what exactly is the sytax for passing the argument root=/dev/hda7 to the slackware kernel?

If I were sure that I coud get everything working properly, I'd dump the FC2 installation because I prefer what I've seen so far in Slack. But, I still have the mouse problem, so I am not yet willing to do this.

Thank you, Jeff.

I just wanted to report that I have solved both problems!

I continued to play with xorg.conf. I think I must have tried about 200 permutations on all the possibilities that looked remotely applicable for mouse settings, but to no avail. I even bought one of those cheapie generic 2 button mouses and still no go-it moved but the system took about 45 seconds to respond to clicks--and that was the best I could do!. Aside from this, performance of the system as a whole was extremely sluggish. Something else was obviously wrong.

I decided to get the 2.6.7 kernel and I compiled it. I wasn't really sure about all the configuration choices, but I picked the ones that sounded like they might be applicable and left alone the ones I didn't know. I tried to do as much as possible in command line mode, because the mouse was still acting retarded.

Voila! It worked. I now have a blazingly fast system with a working mouse. It's gorgeous, too! A very elegant design--this is the *nix I always wanted! I particularly like the

wtf is

command. Sound is up, too, all I have left is to confiigure the printer.

As far as loading, I had to use *exactly* what lilo.conf specifies in my grub.conf file. What I had previously wasn't quite right. The 1024 problem did not apply in my case. It was easy to do since I share /home between my slack and fc2 so I just put a copy of lilo.conf there.