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Operating Systems Linux Slackware Help me!!!! - Slackware 12 Issue - Invalid Partition table Post 302376113 by Reeman on Monday 30th of November 2009 04:49:53 PM

11-30-2009

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Study up on boot loaders and partitioning.

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Originally Posted by beinthemiddle

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Both the times i have installed the LILO which was provided with slackware. Do i need to try without installing LILO from slack and go with the bootloader provided by fedora?

I want to have Win XP, Fedora and slackware in my PC (80 GB ).

Thanks for reading till end Smilie

Your issues are more with the way your HDD is partitioned! Grub can boot from an OS from withing a logical partition within an extended partition. However because you installed grub with Fedora (I assume) the Grub config file will not be available to use with Lilo which just might now be incorrectly installed in the boot sector of your drive.

You need to install grub in slackware not lilo in this case.. to the root directory of your slackware install and then edit /boot/grub/grub.config in Fedora to have your slackware install show up in the boot menu in grub so that when you boot your computer with grub there will be three separate os boot options available.

You will most likely have to put grub back in the boot sector of your harddrive using the correct command as root in Fedora to make all this work correctly.

With your setup and one HDD you can have 4 primary partitions and use them the way you need to, so running three operating systems is possible without having to setup an extended partition table.

There is no reason to create two different swap partitions as both versions of linux can and will use the same swap area you set aside on your drive.

I would strongly suggest getting a second HDD if you want to run 3 Oses, though, as the benefits of having your swap and /root on different drives are substantial if you want your linux installs to really smoke because you can swap and run from different drives at the same time.

My good old dual p111 compact server setup uses a single swap on one small size scsi (6 gig), Slackware (15 gig) on one, Zenwalk on another (10 gig) and XP pro on the first IDE channel...all with no conflicts or trouble.

Best of luck and don't give up!
Eric

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findfs

FINDFS(8)						       System Administration							 FINDFS(8)

NAME

       findfs - find a filesystem by label or UUID

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       findfs  will  search the block devices in the system looking for a filesystem or partition with specified tag. The currently supported tags
       are:

       LABEL=<label>
	      Specifies filesystem label.

       UUID=<uuid>
	      Specifies filesystem UUID.

       PARTUUID=<uuid>
	      Specifies partition UUID. This partition identifier is supported for example for GUID  Partition	Table (GPT) partition tables.

       PARTLABEL=<label>
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       If the filesystem or partition is found, the device name will be printed on stdout.

       The complete overview about filesystems and partitions you can get for example by

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EXIT STATUS

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AUTHOR

       findfs was originally written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> and re-written for the util-linux package by Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>.

ENVIRONMENT

       LIBBLKID_DEBUG=all
	      enables libblkid debug output.

SEE ALSO

       blkid(8), lsblk(8), partx(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The  findfs  command  is  part of the util-linux package and is available from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils
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