Ok, I'm new to the whole slackware thing, but I have a few problems....

Well, for one I'm running a duel boot system with WIndows XP, and RedHat 9. I used partition magic 8 in windows.. and made my dos partition smaller, so I could put slackware on the free space. So I installed it and everything.... but my grub won't recognize it. That's one of my problems.... so everytime I have to put in the boot disk and boot from that to get into it... is there a way to get the grub to recognize slackware so I don't have to boot from the floppy?

Another problem is that I don't seem to have the internet in slackware.... I tried netconfig, but I have no clue what to put in those spaces.... is there some command that I can type in Redhat that will give me the information I need to fill it in? Also eth0 never loads up when I load slackware.... where do I do to make it mount on startup?

Any help would really be appreciated.

You'll have to put an entry in grub.conf for Slack - what partition is the Slack root partition on?

It's on /dev/hda6 So what would I put in grub.conf to make slackware load?

Try this:

title Slackware9
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 ro root=/dev/hda6 hdc=ide-scsi

Hmm... when I tried to boot into it.. it said something about an error.. the file could not be found.

Try this:

title Slackware9
root (hd0,5)
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 ro root=/dev/hda6

Same error....

Error 15: File not found.

Try leaving the "-2.4.20" portion off? So:

title Slackware9
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda6 hdc=ide-scsi



-zsejk

edit:

Perhaps also try leaving off the "hdc=ide-scsi" bit if you're not actually using scsi

can you still boot redhat? do you have the slack partition in your redhat /etc/fstab?

Ok, to answer all your questions and suggestions here....

I tried what zsejk said, and this is exactley what is said when I tried to boot into it through grub....

Booting Slackware Linux 9...
root (hd0,5)
File system type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda6
Error 15: File not found

I also put /dev/hda6 into RedHat's fstab... I got an error when booting into redhat... something like /dev/hda6 is not a directory could not open or something....

Also, I can boot into slackware from the boot disk, but when I put in the slackware cd.... the first screen says something about if you want to boot into slackware from here type something like this....

boot: bare.i root=/dev/hda6 noinitrd ro

would that help? maybe I need that in the grub.conf file ... I'm not sure. Also, if anyone still can help me on configuring my network in slackware so I can use the internet... that would be helpfull too.... The question is in my first post of the thread....

try checking you /etc/rc.d/rc.modules with an editor...

This is the file that tells what module you want it to load...

There's a section for Network adaptors and you need to uncomment (removing the # at the start of the line) the driver you need...

This file is full of comments so you can read them to help you...

Regards,
Ti-Paul.

What kind of internet connection do you have? DSL? Broadband? Also... could you possibly post your grub.conf file? And check if /boot/vmlinuz in fact exists.

-zsejk

Ok, that file rc.modules is not there... I can't find that file, I did a whereis even, and it couldn't find that certain file. Did you want me to do it in RedHat or slackware, or does it not matter?

Here is my grub.conf file:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title Slackware Linux 9
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinux ro root=/dev/hda6
~
"grub.conf" 22L, 689C 22,2-9 All

That rc.modules file should be in Slackware. It's kind of iffy that you can't find it...



Anyway... in your grub.conf, change that Slackware bit to:

title Slackware9
root (hd0,5)
kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda6

And please post your /boot and your /etc/rc.d directories from Slackware (if they're not too big).

-zsejk

Well, I changed the grub, but it still won't boot into slackware. I also went into slackware, but I can't post those files, because I can't get the internet working... So I'm sorta stuck there.