[PLUG] Slackware -- programs missing

[Ben Koenig]

I think your bootloader is looking at the wrong partition.

What is your partition layout?
Where is your slackware root partition?
What does your lilo.conf look like?



On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 4:42 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> On 11/23/18 4:19 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Nov 2018, Dick Steffens wrote:
> >
> >> With the system running the OS on the USB stick, I wasn't sure how to
> >> run
> >> lilo for the hard drive. I tried going to /sbin  on the hard drive using
> >> Dolphin (I'm guessing this is KDEs GUI file manager), right clicking on
> >> lilo, and clicking "run in konsole" but get an error message "Fatal:
> >> Cannot open: /etc/lilo.conf. I'm making a guess here, but even though
> >> I'm
> >> running the lilo on the hard drive, is it still looking to the USB stick
> >> for /etc/lilo.conf? While there's a lilo.conf_example on the USB stick,
> >> there's no lilo.conf. Is there a way to run lilo for the hard drive
> >> while
> >> telling it to look in /etc on the hard drive for lilo.conf?
> >
> >   Ah, that helps my understanding. When you're running off the USB
> > drive you
> > need to mount the hard drive and each directory you need to access,
> > such as
> > /etc. I don't recall off-hand what the full procedure is as I do this
> > only
> > every few years when installation doesn't work as expected.
> >
> >   Tomorrow will probably bring others to this thread and quickly get you
> > booting off the hard drive.
>
> I was wondering about that. Hopefully tomorrow will provide, as you
> surmise.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>
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