Finished Install... but cant boot!!!
I just installed Slackware 8.1 on a pretty standard AMD1.4Ghz/ASUS board. Everything seemed fine, then I removed the CDROM that I installed from and powered up and I ended up on a screen that said "Press A Key To Reboot"... So no matter what I did I was forced to reboot.
My one guess as to the problem is that when I used fdisk to partition my harddisk, I got an error trying to access /dev/hda so I installed everything on /dev/hdb. Is this a problem? I'm wondering if it can't find the correct files on hdb to boot from. After looking around these forums I tried booting from the cd I installed from and at the prompt tried: bare.i root=/dev/hdb noinitrd ro But that just led to some kinda "Kernal Panic" error... Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks. |
when booting from the cd, do bare.i root=/dev/hdb1 noinitrd ro.
u need to specify which partition u put it on. and did u install lilo or another boot manager? because u need to do that if ur root partition isn't on the first partition of the first hard drive |
Much appreciated Rahmed...
"bare.i root=/div/hdb2 noinitrd ro" got me up and running. Now lets see what Slackware can do! Thanks again! |
So I'm able to boot using a bootable CDROM, and at the prompt using the above command ("bare.i root=/dev/hdb2 noinitrd ro")...
My question now is, why can't I boot from my harddrive i.e. /dev/hdb2 ? In my lilo.conf I have the line "boot = /dev/hdb2". I assume this means that lilo is to boot from the 2nd partition on my harddrive...??? I have only 2 partitions on my harddrive, swap and then everything else. Do I need to make this partition bootable? or install lilo to the MBR? Do I need to add "root=/dev/hdb2 noinitrd ro" as a parameter when running liloconfig->expert ? For whatever reason I can't get the liloconfig->expert to install at all, and liloconfig->simple installs, but I still have to boot from the CD. As you can see, I'm not sure what steps to take next... Any/all help is appreciated. Thx |
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html
after u read that, then ask questions. |
Thanks for the link. It helped me have a better understanding of LILO. I'm still having trouble however with my particular setup.
The problem still remains that I cannot boot from my harddrive... I still need to boot from a CDROM. Right now I boot using the CD and at the prompt type "bare.i root=/dev/hdb2 noinitrd ro". I have one harddrive /dev/hdb that is partitioned as follows: /dev/hdb1 ID=82 SYSTEM=Linux Swap /dev/hdb2 ID=83 SYSTEM=Linux (this partition is flagged as bootable) My lilo.conf is as follows: boot = /dev/hdb2 message = /boot/boot_message.txt prompt timeout = 1200 change-rules reset vga = 773 image = /boot/vmlinuz root = /dev/hdb2 label = Linux read-only As this is my first experience with Slackware, I'm not sure what other information you guys might require to help me out. Thanks for any help!!! |
where did u install lilo too? the superblock or a floppy? try intalling lilo simple to the mbr tahts what i do..
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ps if u installed to a floppy, make sure that u have boot from floppy enabled in ur bios. and that u have the floppy inn the disk drive.
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Run cfdisk and check if your partition is marked as "Bootable"
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