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When this first happened I burned the CD at a slower speed and I am still having this problem. I have tried the CD in other computers and it boots fine. Below is the dmesg of the boot process.
Code:
Linux version 2.4.31 (root@tree) (gcc version 3.3.5) #6 Sun Jun 5 19:04:47 PDT 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffd0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffd0000 - 000000001ffdf000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffdf000 - 000000001ffe0000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffe0000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131024
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126928 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/kernels/bare.i/bzImage initrd=initrd.img load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=6464 rw root=/dev/ram SLACK_KERNEL=bare.i
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 498.476 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 992.87 BogoMIPS
Memory: 512628k/524096k available (1832k kernel code, 11080k reserved, 607k data, 120k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU serial number disabled.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd880, last bus=7
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 6464K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcf0-0xfcf7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcf8-0xfcff, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: C/H/S=0/0/3 from BIOS ignored
hda: IC25N030ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03af460, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1902B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 58605120 sectors (30006 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, CHS=3648/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 825.200 MB/sec
32regs : 474.800 MB/sec
pIII_sse : 1005.200 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 1128.000 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 1068.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1005.200 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
incomplete distance tree
invalid compressed format (err=1)<6>Freeing initrd memory: 2583k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
EXT2-fs error (device ramdisk(1,0)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #515: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
EXT2-fs error (device ramdisk(1,0)): ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory #651: rec_len is smaller than minimal - offset=0, inode=0, rec_len=0, name_len=0
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x8400, IRQ 11
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
This is what I get after I login as root.
Code:
slackware login: root
Dec 21 21:49:56 (none) user.info init: Starting pid 224, console /dev/tty1: '/bin/sh'
Dec 21 21:49:56 (none) user.info init: Waiting for enter start '/bin/sh' (pid 225, terminal /dev/tty2)
Dec 21 21:49:56 (none) user.info init: Waiting for enter start '/bin/sh' (pid 226, terminal /dev/tty3)
root@slackware:/#
There are two errors that I saw in your dmesg, one complaining about a missing scsi_hostadapter module (check if that is enabled in the kernel), and the second concerning the ramdisk.
Can you start X? Sometimes there are errors which don't affect the normal running of the system. If you can log in and run Slack, I wouldn't worry about it.
No, this is what happens when I am installing slackware from the CD. It asks to login as root after it boots and you select the keyboard map. I login as root and the other error is what happens, I have tried typing "setup" also but is says it can't be found.
I have fixed the problem, just as what mdg said it was a problem with the ramdisk. I booted off a floppy disk which fixed the problem. It was somthing with the CD I dunno but it is fixed.
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