good day to all slackers!

i have a problem installing slackware 13.0 using my new sata hardisk...
the DVD installer cant boot using hugesmp.s, i tried also booting
hugesmp.s root=/dev/sda1 rdinit=ro but no luck.


i know that the cause of this problem was my new hardisk because when i use an IDE hardisk i can install slack with no problem.


I need help regarding this slack problem.. thanks...

Edit the boot option. Put in:
and try that. I have the same issue with my board, otherwise it won't recognize the drive.

how can i use the pci=nomsi?

is this right? hugesmp.s pci=nomsi

When the boot loader comes up, it should give you an option to edit the bootline. I think in 13.x you have to hit tab to see it, I could be wrong. But yes essentially you want to pass "pci=nomsi" to the kernel before booting.

boot:
only that prompt will appear when i press tab nothing happens...

Ok in that case it is asking for the kernel name. You'll need to either do
or
My guess is the first.

i tried hugesmp.s pci=nomsi but still no luck..

Ok well when I had the problem I used "hugesmp.s pci=nomsi pci=nopcmcia"

However, I'm not entirely sure if you're having the same issue as I did. Do you see any errors or anything? Does it come up saying something about not finding a harddisk?

here's my problem..
when i use hugesmp.s root=/dev/sda1 rdinit=ro it will continue to boot but
at the end it will say:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,1)

Hmm ok. Take out the root=/dev/sda1 and rdinit=ro for now and try the other two I mentioned. When you're pointing out root if its not on your CD drive, you're telling it to boot a different system with the kernel on the CD. So, try to just do: hugesmp.s pci=nopcmcia pci=nomsi

thanks for the reply
but still no luck..

Is your harddisk new? And did you check the md5 for the iso you burned?

I would check the bios settings. I have to set my bios for AHCI or there's no joy in Slacktown.

It seems like your root partition is not /dev/sda1. Try to run CD-ROM
Check hard disk

next - after fdisk will start

this should show all your partitions on /dev/sda

If you'll find the output as it should be, quit from fdisk with 'q' command and try manually
mount /dev/sda1 eg. on /mnt directory

If this command won't work probably it means that the file system on
/dev/sda1 may be corrupted. This sometimes may be fixed with fsck command(s).

If you are able to mount /dev/sda1 and it the root partition look at fstab
file

cat /etc/fstab

you should find '/dev/sda1 /'

Finally, look at lilo.conf (if you are using LILO as a bootloader, I don't)

thanks for the reply..

but my problem is that i cannot proceed to the # prompt to issue fdisk
i am stuck with the boot: prompt..