On 11/25/18 5:06 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
Ah ok. I think I know what is happening.
I'm assuming here that your filesystem on /dev/sda2 is functional and has a
working install of Slackware. A quick description of the LILO setup.
lilo.conf sets up the configuration for the bootloader. However, after
creating your config you have to run the lilo command to upload your
kernel, initrd, and the bootloader itself to your MBR.
Your file looks correct, however it still fails to find your root
filesystem. I'm hoping this is because lilo was run before you finished
your config, which means all we need to do is run it again :-)
To do this, you want to boot the live media again, and manually mount sda2
with the following command (as root):
mount /dev//sda2 /mnt/hd
Now you can list the contents of /mnt/hd/
/mnt/hd/ is a default folder in slackware that you can use for recovery
jobs such as this. Temporary mounts here will not interrupt the system. At
this point you should verify the existence of the init program with the
following command:
$ ls /mnt/hd/sbin/init
/sbin/init*
The error you are getting is referring to that file. When the kernel boots,
it mounts the rootfs as defined by lilo and then runs /sbin/init. If init
does not exist, no init found.
I'm pretty sure you have /sbin/init, but it doesn't hurt to double check.
Assuming it is still there then we need to do a quick chroot and re-run
lilo.
Go ahead and boot live, mount sda2 as described above and verify that
/sbin/init exists.
bash-4.4# mount /dev//sda2 /mnt/hd
bash-4.4# ls /mnt/hd/sbin/init
/mnt/hd/sbin/init
Also confirmed that I see it with ls /mnt/hd/sbin.
The next step after that is a chroot and I need to go
look those commands up because I can never remember them off the top of my
head.
We know why it doesn't want to boot, so all we need to do now is fix it. :)
I appreciate your help. I've heard of chroot, but never had it explained
in a form I actually understood.
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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