Trying (in vain, I might add) to install Slack alongside Ubuntu

colorpurple21859 · 10-26-2019, 04:39 PM

you didn't happen to have a usb drive plugged in?

nohopeforme · 10-26-2019, 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

you didn't happen to have a usb drive plugged in?

I did, yes. A LiveSlak install stick :-/

BW-userx · 10-26-2019, 04:51 PM

sorry, jumping back in, half cocked. that is why you make yourself up a few of them changing the root, and partition if one says nope, then it kicks you back to the select screen, then try the next option. until you get a hit. (depending on how you set them up in your list0, 40_custom)

colorpurple21859 · 10-26-2019, 04:57 PM

unplug the usb and try it again

nohopeforme · 10-26-2019, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

unplug the usb and try it again

Struck out there as well :-(

BW-userx · 10-26-2019, 05:40 PM

do you have 3 hard drives?

Code:

set root='(hd2,gpt3)'

0 = 1st drive
1 = 2nd drive
2 = 3rd drive

hd2 gpt3
so you are telling the system look at the 3rd hard drive partition 3

nohopeforme · 10-26-2019, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by BW-userx

do you have 3 hard drives?

Code:

set root='(hd2,gpt3)'

0 = 1st drive
1 = 2nd drive
2 = 3rd drive

hd2 gpt3
so you are telling the system look at the 3rd hard drive partition 3

I do have 3 drives. The first 2 are windows drives and my 3rd drive has ubuntu installed. I'm really trying to make this dualboot work out with ubuntu and slack.

BW-userx · 10-26-2019, 05:47 PM

if I remember correctly this is efi all three OSes? if yes. an you boot into ubuntutu? if yes, do you mount /boot if you have to in order to ge3t into it, find where slackware put its efi files ... I do not remember everything when I did wfi for slack, but I know slack did not install them in the "right' place or give them the proper names. so I had to move them into the EFI dir (if I am correct) and change the name of the files. then grub efi pick up slack. but this was a year or so ago i did this.

so I'll post this and go look back through my post and see if I can find my help me post on that to see if it might be helpful to you too.

this one read post 1, and 2
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ll-4175646360/

this might help too if ou can decipher it
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ld-4175637345/

it shows location of efi files and names, and what I had to change them to and where to put them.

colorpurple21859 · 10-26-2019, 05:50 PM

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Struck out there as well :-(

In what way?

colorpurple21859 · 10-26-2019, 06:24 PM

as your first post or as post 30

nohopeforme · 10-26-2019, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

as your first post or as post 30

Sorry about that. I thought the quote showed up as a reply to you telling me to remove the usb. I tried editing the grub menu with the noacpi but that didn't work nor did removing my usb drive :-/

colorpurple21859 · 10-26-2019, 06:50 PM

did you add the noacpi and remove the usb both? That is what you need to do. The usb throws the grub bootloader drive count out of whack counting the usb as the first drive therefore the grub boot loader counts the third drive as the fourth drive when the usb is plugged in.

The

Code:

if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd2,gpt2 --hint-efi=hd2,gpt2 --hint-baremetal=ahci2,gpt2  4c0e0dcc-63ef-4ae5-a398-d70890ec690c
		else
		  search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 4c0e0dcc-63ef-4ae5-a398-d70890ec690c
		fi

in the grub.cfg is what overcomes this short coming of the grub bootloader.

nohopeforme · 10-26-2019, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

did you add the noacpi and remove the usb both? That is what you need to do.

Indeed I did. Still at square one.

colorpurple21859 · 10-26-2019, 06:58 PM

so where did it fail at disk not found of post30 , or the kernel panic of your first post?

nohopeforme · 10-26-2019, 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

so where did it fail at disk not found of post30 , or the kernel panic of your first post?

Both, pretty much. I thought I posted pics of all that. Sorry, I'm jumpin through a lot of hoops and the fact that I'm basically clueless doesn't help much, lol. Let me try all this again and I'll try to clarify exactly what's what :-)