[NTLUG:Discuss] Slackware

[Leroy Tennison]

Tom Tumelty wrote:

>I installed Slackware on a machine that had previously been running Ubuntu.
>Grub still trys to start and it then grub gives an error message and the
>machine stalls in the booting process. How can i remove grub totally?
>
>I reformatted the disk when installing Slackware and thought that would get
>rid of grub. Also i am trying to use lilo which comes with Slackware.
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>How do you get Linux (in this case slackware if possible) to recognize and
>utilize dual processors?
>I suspect Ubuntu was only utilizing one processor judging by how slow it
>was.
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>Thanks in advance,
>
>Tom Tumelty
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>email: tomtumelty at gmail.com
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I'm going to make some assumptions here because I don't know Slackware, 
boot from the Slackware CD and take whatever option puts you into single 
user mode or rescue mode.  Find grub on the CD.  There is an option in 
grub to create a boot disk and write a boot sector.  If Ubuntu's  grub 
is older than Slackware's and it's still in the boot sector then you 
could have problems.  I ran into this trying to dual boot Fedora Core 3 
and SuSE 9.2.  Fedora used an apparently newer (or at least different) 
version of ext3 than SuSE and the SuSE kernal (if I remember correctly) 
didn't like it.  Had to go back and reverse the order of install: SuSE 
9.2 first then Fedora Core 3.

If you need to post again, what's the error message you're getting? 
 Some really seroius sounding things (like 'kernel panic') can actually 
be resolved by fixing menu.lst (grub.conf, whatever your distribution 
decides to call it).