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Old 01-07-2014, 11:02 PM   #46
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Not sure what to choose here-

LILO can be installed to a variety of places-
Code:
Root Install to superblock (not for use with XFS)
Install to formatted floppy (I do not have that option)
Install to Master Boot Record
What do you recommend?
 
Old 01-07-2014, 11:14 PM   #47
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Install to Master Boot Record, this will replace your broken Grub installation.
 
Old 01-07-2014, 11:22 PM   #48
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Install to Master Boot Record, this will replace your broken Grub installation.
Ok but now that is an issue-

Sorry but the attempt to install LILO has returned an error, so LILO has not been correctly installed.
You will have to use a boot disk to start your machine instead. It should still be possible to get LILO
working by editiong the /etc/lilo.conf and reinstalling LILO manually. See the LILO man page in /mnt//user/doc/lilo-24.0 for help.

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Old 01-08-2014, 01:38 AM   #49
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I never did get LILO installed but continued on until I got here:

Code:
System configuration and installation is complete.
You may exit the setup and reboot your machine
After a reboot I have-
Code:
grub rescue
 
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Of course, because Lilo was not installed, so you have still the broken Grub boot loader. Start from your Slackware DVD and follow the instructions on the first boot-screen to boot into the installed system. Login as root, run
Code:
lsblk
and post the output here, so that we can helpyou to write a proper lilo.conf.
 
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Of course, because Lilo was not installed, so you have still the broken Grub boot loader. Start from your Slackware DVD and follow the instructions on the first boot-screen to boot into the installed system. Login as root, run
Code:
lsblk
and post the output here, so that we can helpyou to write a proper lilo.conf.
Code:
root@slackware:/# lsblk
sda 8:0 465.8G 0 disk
1=sda1 8:1 1804G 0 part
1-sda2 8:2 350M 0 part
1-sda3 8:3 231.7G 0 part
1-sda4 8:4 1K 0 part
1-sda5 8:5 1.9G 0 part
~sda6 8:6 213.4G 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 2.3G 0 rom  /var/log/mount
root@slackware:/#
 
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I turned my Vaio off for the night: it's very late.

Thank you: all of you for helping me.

The machine is off and the Slackware DVD is still in the drive-
I'll be back in the morining to start up my Vaio.
 
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This does not look like output from lsblk, it does not look like you actually have booted into the installed system and it doesn't make sense, since it reports sda1 to be about 3.5 times larger than the whole disk.
 
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This is weird... Your partition tables are corrupted, thus leading to a corrupt MBR (and probably why lilo doesn't want to install).. What did you do in cfdisk?.. Did you by any chance tried to use fdisk before or after using cfdisk?
 
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Greetings
I strongly suggest you go HEREand download and burn this bootable iso to your favorite media (that your PC can boot ie: CD, USB drive, etc) for 2 major reasons:

1) You may want to backup what you have so you can work on it w/o fear of losing stuff

2) You may need to actually see what the partition table looks like in a graphic representation and have the tools to check, fix, shrink, stretch, delete, and create all in one place. I love the command line as much as most but some things just need to be seen for the Big Picture and a sense of confidence, not to mention a modicum of safety in this case.
 
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This is weird... Your partition tables are corrupted, thus leading to a corrupt MBR (and probably why lilo doesn't want to install).. What did you do in cfdisk?.. Did you by any chance tried to use fdisk before or after using cfdisk?
While I was in cfdisk I created my 2GB swap partition first. I than created the EXT4 partition using the rest of the free space and used
the arrow keys to seletct [Write]

Than proceeded to installing the Base System and watched all the files install--

No I didn't use fdisk at all.
 
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What we see there may be a glitch in lsblk. Please provide also the output of
Code:
parted -l
fdisk -l
 
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This does not look like output from lsblk, it does not look like you actually have booted into the installed system and it doesn't make sense, since it reports sda1 to be about 3.5 times larger than the whole disk.
Before I shut the laptop down last night I ran ls at the root cmdline prompt and I saw (from what I remember) boot/, etc/, init, all in a certain order like I was looking at a directory in console mode-

I just now booted the Vaio and I'm being promtped to Enter 1 to select a keyboard map.
 
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Then you didn't boot into the installed system. Please do that, instead of booting into the install DVD. Instructions how to do that can be seen on the very first screen when you boot from the CD.
 
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What we see there may be a glitch in lsblk. Please provide also the output of
Code:
parted -l
fdisk -l
I'll gladly provide you with the output but for now I have no other options but to comply with the:
"Enter 1 to select a keyboard map with a flashing cursor and Ctrl+Alt+F2 only provides me with a black screen and a flashing cursor that responds to nothing-- Be back in a few-
 
  


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