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I've just migrated from Fedora to slackware 9.1 just to play around and
see what else is out there. Setup and configuration went fine, but now
I'm trying to boot for the first time and all I get (after post and all
of that) is a black screen with "GRUB" written at the top. No activity
whatsoever and it's already been there for about 10 mins, so I figure
it's not going anywhere anytime soon. ow I thought slackware used lilo
as the loader, so could this be some problem with going from fedora???
But I did reformat my entire drive, deleted all old partitions, created
new ones, and configured them properly during the setup. Any ideas on
what could have caused this and how to fix it? Thanks for any help.

If you made a start-up disk, use it to boot to Slackware and then try
putting lilo on the master boot record.

If you didn't make a start disk, you can use either of the two Slackware
CD's and choose your boot partition on start-up

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004
15:19:03 -0500, Max Khitrov wrote:

> I've just migrated from Fedora to slackware 9.1 just to play around and
> see what else is out there. Setup and configuration went fine, but now
> I'm trying to boot for the first time and all I get (after post and all
> of that) is a black screen with "GRUB" written at the top. No activity
> whatsoever and it's already been there for about 10 mins, so I figure
> it's not going anywhere anytime soon. ow I thought slackware used lilo
> as the loader, so could this be some problem with going from fedora???
> But I did reformat my entire drive, deleted all old partitions, created
> new ones, and configured them properly during the setup. Any ideas on
> what could have caused this and how to fix it? Thanks for any help.

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:19:03 -0500, Max Khitrov <maximkh@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> I've just migrated from Fedora to slackware 9.1 just to play around and
> see what else is out there. Setup and configuration went fine, but now
> I'm trying to boot for the first time and all I get (after post and all
> of that) is a black screen with "GRUB" written at the top. No activity
> whatsoever and it's already been there for about 10 mins, so I figure
> it's not going anywhere anytime soon. ow I thought slackware used lilo
> as the loader, so could this be some problem with going from fedora???
> But I did reformat my entire drive, deleted all old partitions, created
> new ones, and configured them properly during the setup. Any ideas on
> what could have caused this and how to fix it? Thanks for any help.

I had the same problem with lilo once. It turned out that I needed to
have boot = /dev/hda rather than boot = /dev/hda1 in /etc/lilo.conf,
the global part of the file.
Root was /dev/hda1.
Then re-run lilo.


AC

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:19:03 -0500, Max Khitrov wrote:

> I've just migrated from Fedora to slackware 9.1 just to play around and
> see what else is out there. Setup and configuration went fine, but now
> I'm trying to boot for the first time and all I get (after post and all
> of that) is a black screen with "GRUB" written at the top. No activity
> whatsoever and it's already been there for about 10 mins, so I figure
> it's not going anywhere anytime soon. ow I thought slackware used lilo
> as the loader, so could this be some problem with going from fedora???
> But I did reformat my entire drive, deleted all old partitions, created
> new ones, and configured them properly during the setup. Any ideas on
> what could have caused this and how to fix it? Thanks for any help.

You will also want to make sure that /dev/hda1 is set as bootable as well.
You can you fdisk /dev/hda and set it as a bootable partition.

Alan Connor wrote:

>On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:19:03 -0500, Max Khitrov <maximkh@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I've just migrated from Fedora to slackware 9.1 just to play around and
>>see what else is out there. Setup and configuration went fine, but now
>>I'm trying to boot for the first time and all I get (after post and all
>>of that) is a black screen with "GRUB" written at the top. No activity
>>whatsoever and it's already been there for about 10 mins, so I figure
>>it's not going anywhere anytime soon. ow I thought slackware used lilo
>>as the loader, so could this be some problem with going from fedora???
>>But I did reformat my entire drive, deleted all old partitions, created
>>new ones, and configured them properly during the setup. Any ideas on
>>what could have caused this and how to fix it? Thanks for any help.
>>
>>
>
>I had the same problem with lilo once. It turned out that I needed to
>have boot = /dev/hda rather than boot = /dev/hda1 in /etc/lilo.conf,
>the global part of the file.
>Root was /dev/hda1.
>Then re-run lilo.
>
>
>AC
>
>
>

Didn't help, but thx for the suggestion. Checked the partitions and hda1
is set to bootable. Can boot fine from the cd, but still have no idea
where GRUB comes from.

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>
> Didn't help, but thx for the suggestion. Checked the partitions
and
> hda1 is set to bootable. Can boot fine from the cd, but still have
no
> idea where GRUB comes from.

GRUB will be left over from the previous distro, are you sure that
you installed LILO to the MBR ?

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Billy

"Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?"
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> >On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:19:03 -0500, Max Khitrov <maximkh@yahoo.com> wrote:

> >>I've just migrated from Fedora to slackware 9.1 just to play
> >>around and see what else is out there. Setup and configuration
> >>went fine, but now I'm trying to boot for the first time and
> >>all I get (after post and all of that) is a black screen with
> >>"GRUB" written at the top. No activity whatsoever and it's
> >>already been there for about 10 mins, so I figure it's not
> >>going anywhere anytime soon. ow I thought slackware used lilo
> >>as the loader, so could this be some problem with going from
> >>fedora??? But I did reformat my entire drive, deleted all old
> >>partitions, created new ones, and configured them properly
> >>during the setup. Any ideas on what could have caused this and
> >>how to fix it? Thanks for any help.

The problem is that you have to install lilo to the master boot
record. The command is lilo -M

Look under man lilo for details.

cordially, as always,

rm

rlm@ktx.justlinux.ca wrote:

>>>On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:19:03 -0500, Max Khitrov <maximkh@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
>>>>I've just migrated from Fedora to slackware 9.1 just to play
>>>>around and see what else is out there. Setup and configuration
>>>>went fine, but now I'm trying to boot for the first time and
>>>>all I get (after post and all of that) is a black screen with
>>>>"GRUB" written at the top. No activity whatsoever and it's
>>>>already been there for about 10 mins, so I figure it's not
>>>>going anywhere anytime soon. ow I thought slackware used lilo
>>>>as the loader, so could this be some problem with going from
>>>>fedora??? But I did reformat my entire drive, deleted all old
>>>>partitions, created new ones, and configured them properly
>>>>during the setup. Any ideas on what could have caused this and
>>>>how to fix it? Thanks for any help.
>>>>
>>>>
>
>The problem is that you have to install lilo to the master boot
>record. The command is lilo -M
>
>Look under man lilo for details.
>
>cordially, as always,
>
>rm
>
>

That's what it was, I installed it to root as that was the default
selection. It did say that installing it to mbr might be a security
risk, do you know why is that? Doesn't make that much difference to me,
but still would like to know. Thanks for your help.

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 18:48:18 -0500, Max Khitrov <maximkh@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Alan Connor wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:19:03 -0500, Max Khitrov <maximkh@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I've just migrated from Fedora to slackware 9.1 just to play around and
>>>see what else is out there. Setup and configuration went fine, but now
>>>I'm trying to boot for the first time and all I get (after post and all
>>>of that) is a black screen with "GRUB" written at the top. No activity
>>>whatsoever and it's already been there for about 10 mins, so I figure
>>>it's not going anywhere anytime soon. ow I thought slackware used lilo
>>>as the loader, so could this be some problem with going from fedora???
>>>But I did reformat my entire drive, deleted all old partitions, created
>>>new ones, and configured them properly during the setup. Any ideas on
>>>what could have caused this and how to fix it? Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I had the same problem with lilo once. It turned out that I needed to
>>have boot = /dev/hda rather than boot = /dev/hda1 in /etc/lilo.conf,
>>the global part of the file.
>>Root was /dev/hda1.
>>Then re-run lilo.
>>
>>
>>AC
>>
>>
>>
>
> Didn't help, but thx for the suggestion. Checked the partitions and hda1
> is set to bootable. Can boot fine from the cd, but still have no idea
> where GRUB comes from.

You misunderstood, Max. /dev/hda1 was set to be the bootable partition
in my case too.

And that's where /boot was.

AC

In alt.os.linux.slackware, Max Khitrov dared to utter,
> selection. It did say that installing it to mbr might be a security
> risk, do you know why is that? Doesn't make that much difference to me,

It's not really a security risk. Sometimes other OSs in a dual boot
setting don't like LILO. Windows NT used to be this way, back before
LILO could boot NT. It's a hold-over from those days. The default
should probably be set to the MBR.

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