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Old 08-03-2006, 12:17 PM   #16
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In which case, you'd probably save a lot of time if you just reinstalled the whole thing rather than figuring out the problem. It's painful I know, but I've had to do this so often that sometimes it's worth just retrying the whole thing from the start and doing it more carefully.

I once wiped out my whole Debian partition because of the awkward device naming scheme of Arch Linux (as it was earlier, now they've moved to udev). One learns by experience as I did to pay a lot more attention to all the configuration options during OS installation... This is just general advice and not targetted at you or anybody in particular btw.

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Old 08-03-2006, 12:22 PM   #17
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One further suggestion. Read the grub manual thoroughly if you haven't already. Its documentation is pretty extensive and once you get your head around the naming scheme for devices and partitions, it's pretty easy to figure out.

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
 
Old 08-03-2006, 12:29 PM   #18
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once you get your head around the naming scheme for devices and partitions, it's pretty easy to figure out.

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
the problem must be somewhere in SW, because debian uses the same booting scheme - GNU/Linux, and boots normally.
 
Old 08-03-2006, 01:07 PM   #19
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thelonius, where is that kernel from? It's not a standard slackware10.2 kernel. If you used the only 2.6 kernel, in testing, it's 2.6.13. And you do need to use initrd unless you use ext2 file system
 
Old 08-03-2006, 01:09 PM   #20
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thelonius, where is that kernel from? It's not a standard slackware10.2 kernel. If you used the only 2.6 kernel, in testing, it's 2.6.13. And you do need to use initrd unless you use ext2 file system
i downloaded 4 cds from SW mirror site, installation was done from two first cds.

i use ext2 on /.

i definitely need to reinstall the system
 
Old 08-03-2006, 09:11 PM   #21
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finally after reinstallation (with quick formatting in ex2 and choosing default kernels) i can boot either directly from grub with 'root' and 'kernel' commands or with lilo run from grub's 'chainloader'.

now i gonna have ulotafan

thank you

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Old 08-05-2006, 04:10 AM   #22
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anyway everything is working u r happy!!!
but many times u blamed slack -and i dont like that it wasn't a slack error
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i do enter in lilo which proposes me one option - 'Linux'. impossible to see-modify whatever in
lilo... when i boot 'linux', it gives after a shortwhile

VFS: cannot open root device "1604" or unknown-block(22,4) Please append a correct "root=" boot option
but let me ask some questions? is this the slackers way?? i
sdont even need answer

the earlier message comes when there is some error in kernel(usually no file system support), and as far as i know
the kernels u listed were not slackware's and this error wont come if u "run lilo" from slack's root, u could haev atlest try booting into ur hard disk using ur slack first cd
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but as i say, i cannot modify boot options in lilo
til now i didnt got how u get into slack and run lilo

i have 3 distros booting from slack lilo please dont blame slack, regards
 
  


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