<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>I have got like 6 of this same email. Is this really being sent that many times or is it something with my email provider?<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jeff Hemminger <jeff.hemminger@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "General NBLUG chatter about anything Linux, answers to questions, etc." <talk@nblug.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:24:23 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [NBLUG/talk] Install Help<br></font><br>
Sorry for the long delay in my response to this, and thanks, it really<br>helped me out.<br><br>I tried to specify the root partition in a number of different ways,<br>none of which seemed to work.<br><br>In the end, I punted and installed a different dist, and went with the<br>partition scheme you suggested.<br><br>Jeff<br><br>On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Mark Street <<a ymailto="mailto:mark@oswizards.com" href="mailto:mark@oswizards.com">mark@oswizards.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Ahhhhh, our old friend lilo. maybe you did not specify a root partition<br>> on install of lilo? You may have not have done anything "wrong".<br>><br>> lilo is running from the mbr if you are getting the lilo prompt requesting<br>> a root partition... but lilo cannot find the root partition which is why<br>> it is asking you for root...we don't know why at this point why<br>> root=/dev/hda2 is not defined since it is a fresh install.
you have two<br>> choices, give it the correct parameters on boot from the lilo prompt...<br>> but even if you give it the correct root=/dev/hda2 we still don't know if<br>> it will boot because lilo still needs to find the kernel and an initial<br>> RAM disk image if it is going to be used.. and we don't know what<br>> lilo.conf looks like. You will find out though as soon as you boot it with<br>> the root=/dev/hda2 parameter.<br>><br>> I would try to a rescue disk (hint Knoppix) or USB drive to take a peek at<br>> lilo.conf and rerun lilo to install back to the mbr. (hint, chroot . and<br>> or lilo -r ) If you do go in and take a peek write down lilo.conf and<br>> post back to the list. If it is too much, you can always re-install and<br>> start over with a clean slate.<br>><br>> Do you plan to do a lot of development on this machine? Lots of source<br>> code to compile and install?
Why a /usr/local on a laptop?<br>> Personally I would have used grub and a different partition scheme keeping<br>> / or /boot close beginning of the disk;<br>><br>> /dev/hda1 = /<br>> /dev/hda2 = swap<br>> /dev/hda3 = /home ... if you really must split off /home<br>><br>>> Hi Everyone,<br>>> I've been struggling to get Slackware installed on an Acer laptop. I'm not<br>>> really familiar with what's going on but I'm hoping some of you can fill<br>>> in<br>>> some pieces.<br>>><br>>> I repartitioned my harddrive like so:<br>>><br>>> /dev/hda1 - swap<br>>> /dev/hda2 - /<br>>> /dev/hda3 - /home<br>>> /dev/hda4 - /usr/local<br>>><br>>> I went through the install process without incident, and selected the<br>>> default option for the LILO bootloader and the default option for<br>>> installing<br>>> the MBR.<br>>><br>>> When
the install completed I rebooted and (sorry I don't have the message<br>>> in<br>>> front of me) received an error asking me to add a root=___ param to the<br>>> boot<br>>> loading options.<br>>><br>>> I take it to mean that the bootloader, LILO, cannot find the MBR. Is that<br>>> correct? I've tried passing in root=hda and root=/dev/hda2, but neither of<br>>> those options worked.<br>>><br>>> Any help in explaining what I did wrong would be much appreciated.<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> talk mailing list<br>> <a ymailto="mailto:talk@nblug.org" href="mailto:talk@nblug.org">talk@nblug.org</a><br>> <a href="http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">http://nblug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:talk@nblug.org"
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