Not exactly sure what I did wrong. But I installed slackware 10.2 on my p3 Toshiba laptop and for some reason the suse login screen is still there.

It appears to only allow me to log in on KDE 3.3

Is there a way I can fix this without reinstalling the whole distro?

When does the SUSE screen appear?---ie does the machine go thru POST--then maybe a boot menu--followed by SUSE?

Did you make new partition(s) for Slackware, or did you tell the installer to delete existing partitions and make new?

Since it is booting into *something*--please post the output of fdisk -l (ell) and cat /etc/fstab

Now I get: Kernel panic VFS: Unable to mount root on 03:02

knew I should have never turned it off.

Well... I am incouraged. I have tried for a while to get something other than SuSE 8.1 to load with little to no avail. Actually seeing that slack does go onto this old p2 laptop, I am happy. I will reinstall and see how that goes. I really love the whole linux experience, JUST WISH I COULD GET IT TO WORK!

Ok... now I only get this when booting up

grub>

cat /etc/fstab

/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/auto/floppy auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0

Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB, 10056130560 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1222 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1094 8787523+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1095 1222 1028160 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1095 1155 489951 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 * 1156 1222 538146 6 FAT16

Disk /dev/sda: 512 MB, 512753664 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1956 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1956 500720 e W95 FAT16 (LBA)

Alright... since I have been kicked out of other posts... This is my post.

Currently my boot process stops with "GRUB _" I no longer get the grub>. I am running knoppix on the old laptop.

P2 333
286 RAM
10Gig
Slackware 10 installed... but not running.

Thanks in advance!

Never mind. I loaded Ubuntu and am officially calling it a day.