Booting Slackware 8.1


 
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Old 08-07-2002
Booting Slackware 8.1

Hello everyone I just joined this forum Smilie

I used to use Mandrake for the longest time but now I moved over to Slackware 8.1 a couple nights ago

I have 3 main problems.

1) I can't boot up without the boot floppy
2) mouse doesn't work in startX and I don't know the XConfigurator command for Slackware
3) I can't telnet to my new linux box. I can ping it, i can ping 127.. on the linux box and I can get on the net with lynx.

Any help with theses three problems I would greatly appreciate.

Here is the post I made on LinuxQuestions.com on my problem
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Hello everyone this is my first post :O)

I used to use Mandrake 8.0 for the longest time but I've decided to try out Slackware 8.1. I have it all installed but I have 3 problems.

1) Have to boot off diskette... I have 3 partitions on my 2.7GB drive /dev/hda1 64MB Linux Swap (SELECTED AS BOOTABLE)
/dev/hda2 400MB Linux Extended
/dev/hda5 2.3GB Linux
The install made theses.....

I tried changing the hda5 to be bootable only and together with hda1 and they both needed the boot diskette... I think i might not have this initial setup right with kernels and all. Please help me on this. Maybe some commands or the lilo file i need to make or point to kernel.

2) Mouse doesn't work in startX -- I dont think the keyboard is working either once I go to startX...I have to reboot after typing startx and it fully loads. I can't change scroll lock so I'm pretty sure the keyboard doesn't work. It doesn't lock up though because the clock changes in KDE 3.0

3) I can get on the internet with lynx on the local system, but I can't telnet to my linux box. I had this working with mandrake... commands are different in slackware so I don't have a really good step by step, but the 3Com is being recognized and I have the 192.168... in etc/hosts and my cable router is pointing to that 192 for port 20,21,23,10000.

Any help would be greatly appreciated I want to try to knock out theses problems one at a time so I can get started on my Samba setup next ;O)

Ohh yeah one last thing. The motd file how do I make it so it doesn't reset itself on bootup?!?!

here's my lilo.conf
LILO.CONF in /etc/lilo.conf (I made this from the example lilo.conf-sample)

boot = /dev/hda (I had hda5 here but that didn't work either)
map = /boot/.map
lba32
install = /boot/boot-menu.b
prompt
timeout=150
delay=30
read-only
serial=0,9600
loader=/boot/chain.b
disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x81
disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x82
disk=/dev/sda bios=0x83

image=/dd/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2
label=2.4.2
root=current
append="reboot=warm"

then i got windoze,backup kernels...

other=/dev/hda
label=MBR

DF produces

FILESYSTEM 1k-blocks USED AVAILABLE Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 2390864 1769864 621000 75% /

When i installed this was confusing i didn't make a /,/home, or /usr
it automatically made a linux swap (hda1) ,linux (hda5), and linux extended (hda2) and the swap is marked as bootable in fdisk...

with this df does this means my linux extended hda2 is not even being used?? its 400mb and I would like to put it to good use.

Thanks for the help in advance, any comments to get this thing booted up except on diskette would be appreciated. Oh yeah when i boot it up without the disk it says PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT.
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Old 08-11-2002
I'll try answering these questions but I don't consider myself an expert user, rather an intermediate, so don't trust me blindly Smilie

1) There's obvously a problem in how you've setup your partitions...

Quote:
with this df does this means my linux extended hda2 is not even being used?? its 400mb and I would like to put it to good use.
First, your hda5 is a logical partition which resides WITHIN hda2, an extended partition. But somehow your logical partition is bigger than your extended...
It's like putting eight apples inside a box which can only hold three Smilie
A more correct use of an extended partition might look like this example:
hda2 10 GB Extended
hda5 2 GB Linux
hda6 5 GB Linux
hda7 3 GB Linux

2GB + 5GB + 3GB = 10GB

You don't use 2+5+3+10=20GB of your hard drive, only 10GB.

Second of all, you only need to make you root partition (/) bootable. In your case that's hda5, and not hda2 or the hda1 (swap) partition.


This may be why LILO freaks out.

Quote:
boot = /dev/hda (I had hda5 here but that didn't work either)
Yes, it should be /dev/hda

Quote:
image=/dd/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2
label=2.4.2
root=current
append="reboot=warm"
Is the location of your kernel image really in the /dd/boot/ directory ?

Quote:
Ohh yeah one last thing. The motd file how do I make it so it doesn't reset itself on bootup?!?!
Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.S . Look for something along this line:

echo "..." > /etc/motd

Delete the text inside the quotes and change it whatever you want. Alternatively delete the whole line itself and edit the motd-file. That way it will not change the contents of /etc/motd upon reboot.

If I were you I would do a reinstall, it seems like things got pretty messed right from the beginning. Smilie

Good luck

/J.P

Last edited by J.P; 08-11-2002 at 11:18 AM..
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