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Old 02-13-2013, 07:54 PM   #16
volkerdi
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Originally Posted by Yaakov Ben-Avraham View Post
# uname -a

Linux eyes 2.6.37.6 #2 Sun Apr 10 01:09:12 CDT 2011 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU-S 1400 MHz GenunineIntel GNU/Linux

I am running the non-SMP kernel because Slackware 14.0 HUGESMP.S image hangs
when booting from DVD (Slackware 13.37 HUGESMP.S works from DVD)

This was a fresh installation on a virgin disk.
Impossible. You're not running the kernel that came with Slackware 14.0.
 
Old 02-14-2013, 12:12 AM   #17
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I can hardly imagine how you got there. Maybe you had Slackware 13.37 previously installed, you didn't wipe it out before installing Slackware 14 (that is to say, you told the installer not to format your root partition) and you didn't run lilo during the configuration post-installation. I may be fully wrong, but please send output of following command, to check:
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ls -l /boot
PS Not sure if it is important but tell us what is your hard disk's lay-out as well (outputs of cat /etc/fstab or cat /proc/partitions and df -h). Just wondering: if you have a separate /boot partition, maybe you didn't reformat that one.

PS2 Maye be you kept the old kernel (this we know for sure as that's what output of "uname -a" shows) and during installation you chose the "expert" mode of liloconfig and reused your old lilo.conf?

In any case I'd try running the commands Mr. Volkerding gave you in post #12. Do not forget to run lilo after that, with an entry for a 3.2.29 kernel.

Or if your system is even more messed up, reinstall everything -- then, after having saved what you want to keep, do accept to reformat the relevant partitions this time when asked by the 'setup' program.

Last edited by Didier Spaier; 02-14-2013 at 06:41 AM. Reason: PS added
 
Old 02-14-2013, 07:16 AM   #18
Yaakov Ben-Avraham
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PS2 Maye be you kept the old kernel (this we know for sure as that's what output of "uname -a" shows) and during installation you chose the "expert" mode of liloconfig and reused your old lilo.conf?
THANK YOU !!!

I did exactly that. My Lilo.conf had an entry that read

image = /boot/vmlinuz

which pointed to the wrong image. Changing this entry to

image = /i/boot/vmlinuz

solved the problem, since the correct image was in directory /i/
 
Old 02-14-2013, 07:22 AM   #19
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You missed the output of "uname -a", which would allow us to see if for some reason you were still running an old kernel.

Was this a fresh installation, or did you install over the top of something that was already there? If the latter, that could lead to all kinds of problems... but, if so, adding --reinstall to that upgradepkg command line would still be able to help clean up the mess, along with the suggestions in UPGRADE.TXT for removing obsolete packages and handling .new config files.
PROBLEM SOLVED - THANK YOU !!!

I was running the "expert" mode of LiLo, and had the line

image = /boot/vmlinuz

which booted the wrong image. I corrected this line to

image = /i/boot/vmlinuz

since the correct boot image was in directory /i/
 
  


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