Slackware 13.1 wont boot with ubuntu studio and xp installed too

jsandroid · 01-05-2011, 08:45 PM

Hey Drako I've done all this, but idk what i must be messing up with. I posted my results of fdisk -l in posting #8; here it is again:

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root@Zeta-US:/home/user# sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf84ef84e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5100 40965718+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5101 5343 1951897+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 7396 9729 18747855 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 5344 7395 16482690 83 Linux

Slackware is sda4, so in went into the grub2 edit command mode and set

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root=(hd0,4)

and

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kernel /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.33.4-smp root=/dev/sda4

Since there are four possible boot options as described above, I made sure to go through and have all options booting to hd0,1 and /sda4. The only exception between the four was that for the first two options, being of generic smp, I also added your

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initrd /boot/initrd.gz

idk, have I missed something from your instructions? I keep rereading these postings over and over again. I feel like this is what I'm suppose to be doing but it's not working at all.

Do I have to reinstall?

colorpurple21859 · 01-06-2011, 08:56 PM

The way I got the ubuntu slackware-generic entry to work was to copy the working /boot/grub/grub.cfg slackware entry to the /etc/grub.d/custom file. I then edited the /etc/grub.d/custom slackware entry linux line to change to the generic kernel, and added the initrd line, then ran update-grub.