slackware 12.1 installed, boot failure
 

Good morning all,

I played with redhat in college and recently decided to learn how an OS works. I installed slackware 12.1 from files i downloaded and converted to cd (images). There are six "disks" i downloaded from the slackware site and converted to images via a homemade .cmd in windows xp and then burned using imgburn.

I partitioned my hd (canibalized from an acquaintance's emachine and connected it to my desktop (1G ram, 2Ghz processor).
Booted from disk 1 and fomatted the 80G HD for 2 partitions of linuxswapable at 2G apeice and 2 partitions of bootable linux. (Because i want to try another distro later).
I ran the setup installing most everything and all seemed to go well.
After i exited setup and restarted, it identifed the cd/hd as normal and then went into some sort of recovery mode with the emachine logo call pcangel, after which it tells me

STOP: c0000021a (fatal system error)
The session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc000003a (0x00000000 0x00000000).
the system has been shut down.

That seems like an xp error to me...

So, is this indeed an xp error message, and if so, why am i getting it after formatting everything?
If it's not an xp message, what is it and how can i get beyond this?

Much obliged,
Daniel

Yes, that is windbloze complaining. See this link, -->http://www.wiki-errors.com/wiki-erro...iki=0xc000003a

Did you install Lilo to the master boot record? If this is the message you get after re-booting, I would bet you did not.

Here is a link to help you install and get it running. If followed, you will wind up with a correctly installed Slackware system, and no winddoze messages.

BTW, formatting by itself will not wipe the MBR. You would have to re-partition first, then format.

The link-->http://genek.net/LinuxAdventures/sysadmin/index.html

Have a look through the Installing Slackware link, the Basic Setup, and Package Management links. All good stuff.

Slackware has newer releases now. Current is 13.37, available in 32 bit and 64 bit releases. Best of luck with Slackware.

I did not install lilo. I thought i didn't need to since i repartitioned. Will do so asap.

Groovitude.

Camorri, thanks for the link. It's been more useful than other guides.

Lilo got slackware running, but to dual boot Slackware & Fedora i ended up using GRUB. Hours of learning later, both OS are running smoothly.

Much joy, & much obliged.