Slackware64 install gone wrong
Today I tried to install Slackware64 14.0 on my laptop with a new hard drive I was given which works and is a 1TB. It's not working I am thinking theres limitation to hard drive size but I can't find anything about hard drive limitations for lilo can't ever find anything when I need it. So here I have a screen that says all this assuming it's all from lilo.
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This seems to a problem with partitioning on the new drive. Did you partition the drive using fdisk or cfdisk? I would suggest cfdisk. http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:...l#partitioning
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I did use cfdisk but let me look at what you've posted thank you
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One other thought, perhaps check to see if you need to make a BIOS setting to allow changes to the boot sector. If you used cfdisk, the changes may not have actually been written to the disk.
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well according to there i am not partitioning anythng wrong and on the other hand I'm also not partitioning any differently then I ever have only difference is the hard drive size :( Could hard drive size be part of my issue? Could my BIOS supposedly not be able to handle a 1TB hard drive...? Is that even possible? This is a HP Pavilion G7-1328dx I bought it only a year ago at Best Buy. It's gotta be a fairly new computer as it is a quad core amd cpu it's it's the a-series so I would expect the BIOS has nothing to do with it but you never know :(
---------- Post added Mar 9th, 2013 at 11:28 AM ---------- I don't have anything like that in my bios my bios it a very basical and minimal bios on this computer which btw I hate |
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Any chance that this drive was previously formatted with GPT? |
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I just installed Slackware64 on a pair of HP Pavilion G7 for a client. You have to partition your disk using 'gdisk' (and NOT 'fdisk'). You can also use the alternative frontend called 'cgdisk'. Also, check if "legacy mode" is enabled in the BIOS. |
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So cgdisk is on the disk do i need to use cgdisk? I've never heard of this tool before so I'm a litter wary if you don't mind plus I really dont' wanna sit here and waste my time fixing this issue and it not work I'm annoyed I was expecting a smooth ride here and upset that it's not :( but it happens I guess though I'll just go with it
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after about 20 minutes of messing with stuff i understand cgdisk and gdisk now and am going on with the installation and hoping it will work
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Those of you giving me simple slackware install documents...No offense but your not helping this isn't a basic issues of something I installed wrong I have litereally done over 100 slackware installs almost all done the same way I do my install traditionally partition one / partition two /home partition three /usr/local and partition four swap. I've done everything over and over again 5 times with this computer if I made a mistake I would have caught it by now -.-
Now I have found something very insteresting while I was repairing an issue that happened because of my stupidity when working on this issue to my windows hard drive...my first partition on my hard drive is the /boot directory the very first partition and starts 2048 sectors or whatever in. does this maybe mean anything? |
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