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Old 10-26-2009, 04:46 AM   #1
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Slack 13: I messed things up


How did it all go so wrong?

PC (Q6600 2GB) with dualboot using lilo on mbr:
- Slackware 12.2 (private life)
- Vista Business (work related)

Upgraded 12.2 via slackpkg. Went wrong: X was killed; something to do with the Nvidia driver that went bust.

hmm.. time to try Slack 13, as I have the DVD laying around, but never found the need/time to upgrade.

Installed Slackware 64 13, on new partitions. I had some space left on the disk ( new / and /home ) / in ext3 for compatibility towards 12.2

Did do a lilo install from within installation, since I thought this might work.. did fail on a table-error. Fixed by editing the lilo.conf and running lilo from within 12.2.

Now I have 2 non-running slackware installations:

- Slack 12.2 -> Loads with 4 devils instead of penguins: Damn: upgraded kernel? Yes: it loads a 64bit kernel! x is dead, can't do anything: 64bit kernel within slack32

- Slack 64 13 -> unable to determine tty1 name (or similar) error: loads the right kernel, but I can't login!

How to fix things? Is my lilo.conf wrong? ( I guess ) and how did slack 12.2 lost it's capability to run X in the first place.
Did I do something wrong with the slackpkg update/grade thingy? wrong mirror so I updated a 64bit with 32bit sources? that would be plain wrong..

And: If I re-install 13, (since it's still quite empty, it's probably the best) could I use ext4, or will /home be inaccessable from 12.2 ( if I can reanimate that installation )

Last edited by sjampoo; 10-26-2009 at 04:47 AM.
 
Old 10-26-2009, 07:40 AM   #2
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Upgraded 12.2 via slackpkg. Went wrong: X was killed; something to do with the Nvidia driver that went bust.
Just recompile the Nvidia Driver then. Download the run file from Nvidia.com and then install it.
 
Old 10-29-2009, 03:48 AM   #3
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Just recompile the Nvidia Driver then. Download the run file from Nvidia.com and then install it.
This solution came in to late.. it went bust, and I just didn't remember how to install the Nvidia driver (as I am a n00b ) I did have the driver there, just no internet access to get me on the road again. (Lynx is a bit to cripple to go to nvidia.com )

Anywayz; I did do a reinstall of Slackware64 13 and got things going again.. Lilo didn't go that smooth, but I did manage to boot with the DVD and install Lilo afterwards.
 
  


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