Hello to all,

I was updating my laptop from 12.1 to 12.2 after doing the same think before on my desktop.

While doing so there was a problem regarding the amount of space needed on the root partition therefore the update was not done fully.

First I resized the partitions to give more space with gparted.

After that I restart my laptop and when the lilo option come on by choosing Slackware it just reboots again by choosing Windows it works.

therefore I used the Slackware DVD and mount the root partition looked into lilo.conf to see if everything is ok and it seems fine.

can I repair my Slack, if so how?
or I have to reinstalled form scratch?

My partitions:

sda5 /
sda6 /home
sda7 /usr/local
sda8 /swap

thank you in advance!!!!

Since you have a separate home-partition I'd suggest to do a complete new installation. Copy backups to your /usr/local and while installation choose /dev/sda6 for /home and /dev/sda7 for /usr/local but without formating this partitions.
/dev/sda5 becoms / again and has to be formatted. Here is a thread you should read before the new installation: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...lation-745094/

Markus

What backups I should put in /usr/local?

I will try and post the results.

Just for a different idea:
I had close to the same problem but rather than re-installing, I just installed grub to my / partition. When the computer starts and loads my bootloader, I click on Slackware and it then brings up grub, which boots Slackware. I couldn't get lilo to boot Slackware, but after installing grub, Slackware boots fine now.

btw- what does /boot look like?

Hi together,
I mean scripts which you have written, for example your own /etc/profile or the .bashrc of root, /etc/wpa_supplicant or rc.inet1.conf etc. And of course packages you once downloaded which are not part of slackware. A saver choice is making a backup on a CD or so.

This may work. My experience is that a properly prepared new installation is faster than a big update like from 12.1 to 12.2.
And I have a clean system afterwards.

Markus

I put in the Slackware dvd 12_2 and at the root I mounted my external HD ( formated in NTFS) but I can't even create a folder on this drive to backup

even changing chmod did not help.

I have an older backup I will satisfy and my home was already backed up.

I run Slax and made the backup and reinstalled as described by markush and everything works fine now

Thank you all!!!

Hi rssn6,

I'm happy to read that it worked for you.

Markus