Boot Troubles from Slack 9

[asterik]

Ok, here's my fstab

/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

when i boot it just sits at the text: GRUB and i can't do anything. i always have to boot from the Floppy.

[bosox79]

Originally posted by asterik
Ok, here's my fstab

/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

when i boot it just sits at the text: GRUB and i can't do anything. i always have to boot from the Floppy.

here is fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0


/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom1 auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

do you have a boot partition? is this the first time you are booting slack9 after the install?

[rid3r]

asterik, did you install GRUB yourself, since Slackware 9 still comes with Lilo as a default bootloader? If you still can boot from floppy, could you post your /etc/grub.conf or /boot/grub/grub.conf, or take a look to another threads (http://www.justlinux.com/forum/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=729570&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending) on how to configure it.

[janet loves bill]

heh, Asterik are you a member of HDC.......he he

[deanrantala]

The grub install you are seeing is NOT from The Slackware install - Slack comes only with Lilo. The grub you got is still "left over" from your old install. You need to install lilo.

Log in as root and type

pkgtool

Go to "select setup scripts to run again" and go to the part that lets you install the boot loader. Sometimes if you select "try to install lilo automatically" it will fail, so you might want to do it manually from that menu.

Let me know how that helps..:)