Slack 10 won't boot after laptop install

ShakyJake · 07-07-2004, 10:54 AM

I'm not dual booting or anything, just a complete clean install of Slack 10. Everything installs correctly, I set up LILO to boot from the MBR. After installation is complete, I reboot only to have a no operating system found error.

Mandrake and Fedora install and boot with no problems. Any clue what's going on here?

gnashley · 07-07-2004, 12:26 PM

Reboot with the CD or a boot floppy and try mounting your ne installation as the root file system. When you see this- boot :
type: mount root=/dev/hda1 ro
substituting the correct hd?? for where you installed.
If it mounts OK then you just need to fix your lilo config.

ShakyJake · 07-09-2004, 11:41 AM

Just got around to fooling with the laptop again.

I used the 2nd Slack CD to boot off the hard drive. checked LILO.CONF and everything looks cool. I ran LILO again, and after rebooting the laptop reports "Hard Disk boot sector invalid".

Is there some BIOS option that's assuming a Windows boot sector should be there and just halting? That would be rather stupid.

Any further suggestions?

ddu_ · 04-28-2005, 07:01 AM

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted here...
anyhow, I've had similiar problems with an HP laptop I was working on. I was able to get it to boot by using the slack 10.1 install disk, and at the boot prompt typing:

bare.i root=/dev/hda2 noinitrd ro

Of course, you can replace the hda? with the correct partition number.
I've yet to edit LiLo config...will post more as I find out.

Hope this help!

masonm · 04-28-2005, 03:06 PM

Hmmmm. it sounds like you didn't actually install Lilo to the MBR. You may want to reinstall Lilo.