Hi!

I am have just installed - for the first time, and after many many mistakes, my first Slackware - 14.2 64 on a San Disk Cruiser usb stick, throuh my Fujitsu Esprimo E7935, with a Corel2 Duo E8500 and 8 Gb ram, from a DVD burned from an iso dowsloaded this week.
I did this after using Slackware LIve (Mate) in 2 of my computers, for most of my everyday needs, for a couple months.


Immediately upon concluding the installation - having chosen not to install lilo - and exiting setup i did:

1 - chroot /mnt

2- ran mkinitrd -c -k 4.4.14 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sdb3
got a message that modules jbd2.ko,mbcache.ko and a third one (maybe ext4?) had been added
3- grub-install --target=i386-pc -dev-sdb
got "no errors"

4- added > GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBE=true < to /etc/default/grub

5- ran lsblk and checked that none of the partitions in the computer's HD were mounted

6 - ran grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
and got message that confirmed presence of initrd, and surprisingly to me that some of the OSes installed on the hd had been found, and the error message which I enclose as a .jpeg file

At this point I have no other idea than asking for help.

Greetings!

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Nice to see someone else has decided to become a slacker.

Do you know there is a slackware instalation forum? https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...40/?daysprune=

My first guess is that since there is another distro on the hdd is that you didn't reformat the hdd during the install process. So slackware installed besides the old distro and your electronic marvel is swapping between distro's as it boots.

Thanks for the link. I had looked for it but missed it somehow.

I Looked through the 8 first pages untill it become most references till much older versions, but i found a reference by Richard Cranium @ https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ab-4175583059/ :

"You should bind /sys, /dev, and /proc to /mnt/tmp/sys, /mnt/tmp/dev, and /mnt/tmp/proc prior to the chroot, while you're at it."

As you can see above I did not do that.

I was following https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/slackware.../README.initrd where there is no mentioning of any binding and I assumed
that chroot would be like arch-chroot in ArchLinux.

Can that be my misstake ?

edit: I have several Linux distros on my HD.

I did not install to the HD. I installed to an USB-stick and installed grub to the usb stick too.

In the link I've quoted, you appear to have copied and pasted (since it appears in the OP) a line from Alien's insructions, which might not be right...... (I'm not implying that Alien's instructions are wrong. They may not be current.)

Therefore you might be building a initrd file which has no matching kernel.

So have a look in your boot folder and replace the numbers (4.4.14) with the numbers that appear after which ever kernel you're using. And check that your usb is the destination.

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My /boot folder @ sdb3, my Slackware (root) partition says: vmlinuz,vmlinuz-generic,vmlinuz-generic-4.4.14,vmlinuz-huge,vmlinuz-huge-4.4.14

uname -r mentions "4.4.14"

A question : can it be that I need to add a specific (usb ?) mode to initrd in order to be able to boot from the usb stick into which Slackware was installed?

What your asking is unfortunately beyond my knowledge. Sorry.

Thus, unless others can help here, I suggest you ask your questions again in the Slackware Instalation forum.

Thanks for your help anyway, I will try the installation forum. Should I somehow close this thread ?