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OS will not boot after good installation. Freezes at startup with error, maybe LILO?

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Error Loading Operating System

My theory goes back to the end of the installation, I made the (possibly bonehead) choice of not activating (or whatever you call it) LILO.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to activate or install LILO, or anything else that will get my slack up and running, please don't hesitate to post them. My band will be having a practice soon, and the studio computer is an essential for our jam recordings, as well as multitrack and other things.

thanks alot!

see if this works, boot to cdrom, mount /dev/<cdromdevice> /cdrom (usually hdc or sr0) mount /dev/<slackwarepartition> /mnt (usually hda*) depending on hardware if its sata its sda* cp /cdrom/slackware/a/lilo-22.7.1-i486-2.tgz /mnt ; cd /mnt ; chroot /mnt /bin/bash ; #source /etc/profile #installpkg lilo-22.7.1-i486-2.tgz #liloconfig if it works you will get a blue screen with 3 choices first one being simple

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Originally Posted by ShockProductions

Hey guys,
Just a few days ago, I finally hit the breaking point on windows XP. The constant crashes and little, almost insignificant problems built up enough that I decided to switch to Slackware.
My main use of the computer is audio production, and I wanted a system that was capable, yet popular with the package developers, so that I could find the programs I needed. Fedora Core would have been my other choice, but they don't have CD iso files.
ANYWAY! I first tried the installation on two old CD-RW's and realized that even the most minor scratch on them would interfere with the installation. So after several retries, I finally splurged and got a bunch of CD-R's, which did the trick: the installation went off without a hitch.
The only thing is, that when I rebooted the computer after a successful install, the boot halted at an error:

My theory goes back to the end of the installation, I made the (possibly bonehead) choice of not activating (or whatever you call it) LILO.
If anyone has any suggestions on how to activate or install LILO, or anything else that will get my slack up and running, please don't hesitate to post them. My band will be having a practice soon, and the studio computer is an essential for our jam recordings, as well as multitrack and other things.

thanks alot!

Hi,

The easiest way would be to use the install cd1 to boot the system as if you were going to install.

After you get to the login then from the cli (command line);

Code:

~#mkdir /slacktemp                  #temporary mount point

~#mount /dev/your_device /slacktemp  #this the device you installed to

~#chroot /slacktemp                  #change to yours

~#cd /slacktemp/etc                  #change to directory with lilo.conf 

~#vi lilo.conf                      #edit lilo.conf, if need be

~#lilo -v -t -b /dev/your_device    #sda, hda this will only test 

~#lilo -v -b /dev/your_device        #this will write MBR to your_device

You should now be able to re-boot your system.

In the future, please provide information about your kernel, system or any other relative information for your problem.

or (#3) use the CD1 and read the prompt:
It contains the hint how to boot a miss-installed system ;) with the parameters matching Your root partition.
When done, login and do:
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
# mc /mnt/cdrom
navigate to the directory containig lilo (slackware/a/)
point to lilo and press [F2],[@]
now type

Code:

installpkg

and type [F10] when done.
on the prompt type

Code:

liloconfig

and follow up the questions
when done, tupe

Code:

lilo

once more just to be sure (one can't over-do lilo ;) )

thanks alot for your help guys. I ended up switching to Fedora 7 anyway, not because slack was to hard to set up, but it wasn't compatible with some of the applications I need to run for recording and editing audio. again thanks alot, its great we've got sites like this on the web for linux noobs like me.

peace
~~Syd