General :: Couldn't Get Slack To Boot
Feb 5, 2011
I am writing this from my new MozillaFirefox browser, operational for 3 minutes.I started researching Linux Dec 27th, bot a couple of books, bookmarked about 20 sites c/w howto', FAQ's, LinuxBook, etc., printed about 250 text files (exhausted my lazer printer), downloaded/burnt DVD's for Slackware 13.1, Mandriva 10.1, utorrent (x windows so I could download it all), Easus Partition Manager and am finally here.
I couldn't get Slack to boot, nor could I get Mandriva to go either it has taken me 1+ month to get here. Finally gave up on booting from a usb and external hdd (thanks to a pair of SATA you know whats!)Yesterday, I repartioned my C drive (ooops, sda) and loaded up Mandriva...couldnt get it to function either. Tonight, went through the driver install program available with the load disc and read (& wrote down) the driver "failure" output. Reloaded the DVD, chose upgrade vs install, got to the hardware configuration screen and played with my video and sound settings, and voila
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Jun 25, 2011
i installed slackware then i unistalled it and installed debian then i decided to go back to slackware but it wont boot because i have the grub boot loder how do i fix this
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Sep 4, 2010
I am trying to setup a PXE booting environment in my network and I almost got it to work... Only it does not quite work yet... Basically, I want my laptop or any other machines to boot from my network. I followed the instructions from AlienBob to do so. I setup my laptop to boot from the NIC, it automatically gets an IP from the DHCP server (pfSense);
I setup my gateway/DHCP server (pfSense) as is: -The IP address from the network boot server: 192.168.0.101 (the server where my slackware mirror and all tftp boot files are) -The filename used for network booting: /mnt/it-maintenance/tftpboot/slackware-13.1/pxelinux.0 (the absolute address of pxelinux.0 in my server)
I setup the network boot server (running slack 13.1) as is: -uncommented the line in inetd.conf to have:
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tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd in.tftpd -s /tftpboot -r blksize
-added a NFS share to /etc/exports to have:
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/mnt/it-maintenance/operating-systems/slackware-13.1
192.168.0.106(ro,sync,insecure,all_squash)
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Apr 18, 2011
I have just reinstalled slackware on my old p4 3.2 box clean install formatted hard drive no other packages installed.is there something seriously changed from slack 10 to slack 13.1 ?? or do i suffer from C.R.S ( cant remember s***)
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Nov 13, 2010
create a VM here with virsh. I've managed to create the XML file and got it to work properly, however running it is the problem. These are the errors I get error: Failed to start domain Cent-OS, internal error process exited while connecting to monitor: open /dev/kvm: No such file or directory ,Could not initialize KVM, will disable KVM support qemu: could not open disk image /media/55D123D9E79ABF54/VM/Cent-OS-5.5.img: Permission denied
I've tried setting SElinux to permissive mode.
Fedora 14 X64
hypervisor qemu
XML:
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May 14, 2010
After applying the latest update on my Ubuntu desktop from the update manager, I couldn't boot into the GUI ANYMORE!!!!
I think it might have something to deal with the NVIDIA update? I am not sure!
Even the Recovery mode wouldn't boot me into the GUI!
the failsafeX Run in failsafe graphic mode didn't work! -Fatal server error: no screens found.
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Mar 8, 2010
I was downloading a new OS on my computer, it was going to be a dual boot, and then my computer froze. When I restarted my computer I couldn't boot my old OS or install the new OS. When I go to recovery mode I don't know what to do, it says to either enter the root password or press ctrl+d to skip the recovery. How do I enter the root pass? Just entering the pass by itself makes it says 'bash: no job control in this shell'
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Jan 7, 2010
i got a external hard drive for christmas and i installed ubuntu on it. then i couldent boot in to anything if the USB wasent pluged in because of GRUB so i removed GRUB and now i cant see my external USB drive in windows to formate it
Computer:
Toshiba
Windows Vista
External Hard Drive: HP Simple Save
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Jan 13, 2010
I install Slackware on Virtual Box with 02 Nic (Eth0: wan, eth1 :local), config iptable , bind for a small network, it works fine local PC can go internet and use DNS cache.
I try slack update and get the following error:
slackpkg update
awk package not found! Please install awk before you run slackpkg, as slackpkg cannot function without awk.
I try which awk
which awk
which: no awk in (/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games)
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Feb 14, 2011
I had issues on my last install , I couldn't boot into it cause I accidentally uninstalled python 2.6 and everything it was attached to. So I reinstalled on a separate hard drive, I can see my other file system from the media folder but the only thing in my home dir is these 2 files 1 read me that says
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THIS DIRECTORY HAS BEEN UNMOUNTED TO PROTECT YOUR DATA.
From the graphical desktop, click on:
or
From the command line, run:
And then this file
Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop
But when I click it and try to run it I get this error
PHP Code:
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Jul 22, 2011
i got 2 live cds with 5 distros on each. i decided to test the distros on my macbook but I couldn't boot from the Live CD using reboot and holding down "c", so I selected the Live CD as my startup disk. so i experimented with fedora, tested mint, and played with pradus.
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May 16, 2011
After installing Slack 13.37 on one of my systems while using my own (non-standard) kernel it refused to boot as the harddisk couldn't be found anymore. Investigation yielded that the ahci.ko driver wasn't loaded (but libahci.ko was). However I listed both ahci.ko and libahci.ko in the mkinitrd -m parameter so there had to be an error in the new /sbin/mkinitrd script. It turned out that a grep at the end of the script weeded out my ahci.ko module as the searchterm "ahci.ko" was already detected in the modprobe line for libahci.ko.
I decided to fix it in an easy way : I just prepend a "space" in front of the module name at the line where the grep is called :
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Jun 20, 2010
I installed a fresh copy of Slackware 13.1 (stable) on one of my media servers and I am experiencing something strange.... When I power up the machine, I see the kernel booting, no errors, until it gets to the point where it says:
And then randomly freeze there.... Well the machine is not totally frozen because the cursor still blinks. But it will never continue... Like I said, this happens on a random basis... After a reset, it might go through or simply stall at the same spot.
I remember after installing Slack 13.1, I rebooted the machine but forgot to remove the DVD from the player, so the install routine started up, and froze at the same point when it was loading the kernel for the setup programs...
My mobo is a MSI k9N platinum.
I never had this problem before.... (well I never used 13.1 before). Since I got this machine, I used slack 12.2 and slack 13-current with success.
This problem makes the machine extremely unreliable because I intent to use it as a backup and media server, so chances I will WOL the machine and use it remotely... if that happens.
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Apr 7, 2010
i am not able to access my pen drive on slack ware
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Jun 4, 2010
The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:
Im using slack ware 10.2 for may mail server.
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Jul 20, 2009
I'm receiving the following error message when running LILO under SystemRescueCD after installing Slackware 12.2 (the slackware setup hung when installing LILO so I am trying to install manually - I have re-run setup, including formatting all drives again):FATAL: Trying to map files from unnamed device 0x0010 (NFS/Raid mirror down?)Let me know if any more information is necessary and thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
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Jan 25, 2011
I am new to Linux .I am using ubuntu gnome desktop and i can connect to Internet via huawei e160 HSDPA usb stick easily.In Ubuntu network manager shows my broadband connection and by that i can connect.Few weeks back i install Slackware KDE desktop and still i couldn't connect to Internet.If some one know how to do it.
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Sep 1, 2011
I recently lost the default panel from the top task bar, a message appeared on boot up saying a config file was missing or couldn't load - or something to that effect. I didn't realise to what it was referring until the computer (an Acer One) completed its start up and I could see the desktop
How can I restore the panel? (graphic from my other Ubuntu laptop attached showing the default panel appearance)
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Oct 22, 2010
I once used an alternate key as a shortcut of deleting in dolphin. After that, I want to revert to the default key DEL in dolphin so I reset the shortcuts. But I find it doesn't work any more. What's more the shortcut notice following the "Move to Trash" in the right click menu also goes away, i.e. just a blank,shown in attachment. What should I do?
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Oct 4, 2010
in my centos5.3 i am able to login in terminal but while logging in gui shows error as follows-- Couldn't start x server on card 0 i fired the command as follows- yum groupinstall "X Window System" shows illegal instruction
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Apr 7, 2010
there is a file named vmscan.c the location which is given on internet is usr/src/linux/mm/vmscan.c but when i went there , i found only two files ,but there was no vmscan.c so can any one help me to locate the file?
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Jul 3, 2010
When i install libdrm, i get the following error:checking for clock_gettime... no.checking for clock_gettime in -lrt... no.configure: error: Couldn't find clock_gettime
It seems that it cannt find clock_gettime function, but i find it as follow:
$ grep clock_gettime /usr/include/time.h
extern int clock_gettime (clockid_t __clock_id, struct timespec *__tp) __THROW;
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Jul 7, 2010
I used locate cmd to search file abc.txt (for example) as I didn't know in which directory it would be present and couldn't find it. But when I did find . -name abc.txt, it traced the file, luckily the file was in the same directory. I am wondering how find was able to search abc.txt and locate not. How these two are behavinb differently? Usually I use locate when I don't know the path to the parent dir.
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Sep 4, 2010
I've installed Ubuntu once or twice, but kept running into problems like, I couldn't get my microsft vx5500 webcam to work, little things like that.
My question is, what is the groups opinion of what operating system to start using and should I keep it as a dual boot with windows?
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Aug 8, 2010
I have installed Fedora 13 on /dev/sda2, with /dev/sda1 installed windows XP.I tried to boot Fedora 13 with wingrub.
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Sep 16, 2010
I am trying to run i386 in gcc_test-suite using dejagnu runtest and it fails with error given below. I can see that gcc-dg.exp is in folder gcc-4.6-20100911/gcc/testsuite/lib, but runtest is not searching in this folder.
how to resolve this issue and run only i386 tests.
$ cd /gcc-4.6-20100911/gcc/testsuite/gcc.target
$ runtest -a -tool i386 -verbose
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Looking for library file /usr/local/share/dejagnu/lib/gcc-dg.exp
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Jan 13, 2010
Recently I installed a backtrack 4 final on my computer, but I couldn't browse the internet by wifi , when I use the slax networktool to analyze the newwork and see what the problem is, the tools showed as below:
wpa-supplicant:error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. I also cann't find the libssl.so.0 in the corresponding diretory.
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Oct 12, 2010
i'm new to Debian os and currently want to install php5 apache2 and mysql 5.1. But ive got problem to start the mysql services.The error on command prompt as belows:
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Feb 20, 2011
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