Hello, all..

Have a strange problem that I'm sure is something stupid on my part,
but not quite sure how to fix it. Now, I'll caveat this by volunteering
the fact that it's been a while since I've done a Linux install, hence
the "something stupid" caveat.

I am installing Slack 10.1 into an MS Virtual PC setup. I installed
from the ISO image, and installation appeared to be going entirely
normally, right down to net configuation, extra packages, you name it,
very vanilla and uneventful install.

Setup tells me it done and happy. When I tried to reboot after the
install, the kernel ends up in a panic abort because it cannot mount
the root filesystem (after a couple of other efforts failed with "bogus
sector sizes", which didn't bother me because they were attempts at FAT
file systems, which the root file system isn't).

I take a look at fdisk and it shows a single /dev/hda1 partition for
the entire drive, type ext2. I thought perhaps something had corrupted
the install, so I rebooted into the ISO image installer, logged in, and
was able to manually mount the file system with no problem, and the
files I looked through looked normal to me. Sorry not to have copies of
fdisk output but I'm away from the box at the moment.

This is not an absolutely critical problem as it's a new install, so if
worse comes to worse, I can just blow it away and start over. But I
would like to know what I did wrong....

Thanks for ideas,
David

ps please reply to group; email here is dead.

intrepid_dw@hotmail.com wrote:

> Hello, all..
>
> Have a strange problem that I'm sure is something stupid on my part,
> but not quite sure how to fix it. Now, I'll caveat this by volunteering
> the fact that it's been a while since I've done a Linux install, hence
> the "something stupid" caveat.
>
> I am installing Slack 10.1 into an MS Virtual PC setup.

<snip>

that may be the problem

try a non-virtual installation

On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 03:55:20 -0500, philo wrote:

> intrepid_dw@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>> Hello, all..
>>
>> Have a strange problem that I'm sure is something stupid on my part,
>> but not quite sure how to fix it. Now, I'll caveat this by volunteering
>> the fact that it's been a while since I've done a Linux install, hence
>> the "something stupid" caveat.
>>
>> I am installing Slack 10.1 into an MS Virtual PC setup.
>
> <snip>
>
> that may be the problem
>
> try a non-virtual installation

If this is indeed the case (and I cant think what else it could be) try a
different virtualiser. I have used slackware on vmware without a problem.

ion

Thanks, all.

Turns out I had missed a step when creating my partitions. I blew the
existing partisions away, started over, made sure I dotted all my i's
and crossed all my t's when I built the partitions, reinstalled, and
everything worked perfectly. Slack 10.1 works just fine under MS VPC.

I appreciate the help nonetheless.

-David


ion wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Sep 2005 03:55:20 -0500, philo wrote:
>
> > intrepid_dw@hotmail.com wrote:
> >
> >> Hello, all..
> >>
> >> Have a strange problem that I'm sure is something stupid on my part,
> >> but not quite sure how to fix it. Now, I'll caveat this by volunteering
> >> the fact that it's been a while since I've done a Linux install, hence
> >> the "something stupid" caveat.
> >>
> >> I am installing Slack 10.1 into an MS Virtual PC setup.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > that may be the problem
> >
> > try a non-virtual installation
>
> If this is indeed the case (and I cant think what else it could be) try a
> different virtualiser. I have used slackware on vmware without a problem.
>
> ion