hi

im running a sata drive and installing slack 10.2

i have got it installed fine running sata.i module on boot up for install.
all went find and cfdisk /dev/sda got my drives setup etc

table as this
/dev/sda1 swap
/dev/sda2 /boot
/dev/sda3 /
/dev/sda4 /video
(checked this with fstab it match's)

now im having aproblem with booting into linux

after lilo im getting the following error messages.

my lilo.conf looks like this

i can boot from the CD with
sata.i root=/dev/sda3 noinitrd ro

no errors etc

i hope someone can help me out here as im realy stock now

You can try to change
to
to see if Lilo likes it.

You need to run "lilo" again every time after you have altered /etc/lilo.conf.

Mr Saikee
I'am try for ur solution. but it's same it's not work.
anybody can help for problem like :
im running a sata drive and installing slack 10.2

i have got it installed fine running sata.i module on boot up for install.
all went find and cfdisk /dev/sda got my drives setup etc

table as this
/dev/sda1 swap
/dev/sda2 /boot
/dev/sda3 /
/dev/sda4 /video
(checked this with fstab it match's)

now im having aproblem with booting into linux

after lilo im getting the following error messages.

Quote:
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno =2

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2
VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or 08:03
please append a correct "root=" boot option
kernel panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 08:03

my lilo.conf looks like this

Quote:
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/sda
message = /boot/boot_message.txt
prompt
timeout = 50
# Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:
change-rules
reset
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
vga = 771
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal

# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda3
label = Linux
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends


i can boot from the CD with
sata.i root=/dev/sda3 noinitrd ro

no errors etc

i hope someone can help me out here as im realy stock now

evan.bhomert,

You haven't tried my suggestion as your lilo.conf doesn't show it.

My suggestion of using boot=/dev/sda2 is because high up at your lilo.conf these 2 lines
have no information on where /boot/boot_message.txt can be obtained. Since your /boot is in sda2 and so I suggest the amendment.

Also you must to run "lilo" in Bash shell everything after altering its lilo.conf or no change will be implemented.

From the error log, seems that your kernel doesn't support sata yet,

Have you use sata.i as your kernel in post-installation of slackware?

When you use sata.i in 1st booting, is just to recognize the sata drive and installed it there, but you have to use sata.i as your kernel on post-installation to make your slackware recognize the sata drive.

Hope it helps..

kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-8, errno = 2
VFS: Cannot open root device "803" or 08:03
please append a correct "root=" boot option
kernel panic: VFS Unable to mount root fs on 08:03

think not the problem with lilo, since lilo is coming
have u installed sata.i kernel when it asked for installing kernel.

or if u can boot into linux using sata.i root=/dev/sda3 noinitrd ro

boot into machine using this.
copy the sata.i kernel(or what ever is working) to /boot (along with the config and system map file) and edit lilo and run lilo

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kudos
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