L 99 99 99 ... on boot after installing Slackware 15.0
by mfoley from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6MQGK)
I've been installing Slackware systems for 20+ years and this one is a first for me (although I've found other on the 'net). I've just installed Slackware 15.0 on a new system from the DVD. I've installed about 6 of these systems in the past month on identical hardware (MB, CPU). The only difference with this one is an 8TB drive which I've partitioned using gdisk. After doing the normal 'setup' I rebooted, but instead of Slackware booting I get on the screen "L 99 99 99 99 99 ..." repeated for several lines, then nothing.
I've found similar posts on the web, but none solved my issue. I tried booting from the DVD and doing the following:
Code:mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
chroot /mnt
liloI've made minor tweaks to lilo.conf and did the above a couple of time. I also did one with 'lilo -M /dev/sda mbr', then did the above again. Nothing seem to work.
My partition table is:
Code:root@slackware:/# gdlsk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdlsk (gdlsk) verslon 1.8.8
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
RPM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR: using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 15628153168 sectors. 7.3 TiB
Model: ST8000DM004-2U91
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/4096 bytes
Disk Identifier (GUID): B6E976D5-15AA-499C-991E-3AD7185BB157
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34. last usable sector is 15628153134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.8 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 16779263 8.1 Gi8 8200 Linux swap
2 16779264 15628053134 7.3 TIB 8300 Linux filesystemMy lilo.conf is:
Code:append=" vt.default_utf8=1"
boot = /dev/sda
bitmap = /boot/slack.bmp
bmp-colors = 255,0,255,0,255,0
bmp-table = 68,6,1,15
bmp-timer = 65,27,0,255
prompt
timeout = 1200
change-rules
reset
vga = normal
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda2
label = Linux
read-onlyBoot image is:
Code:# ls -l /mnt/boot/vmlinuz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 May 10 02:43 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-huge-5.15.19Any ideas on why I can't boot to Linux?
I've found similar posts on the web, but none solved my issue. I tried booting from the DVD and doing the following:
Code:mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
chroot /mnt
liloI've made minor tweaks to lilo.conf and did the above a couple of time. I also did one with 'lilo -M /dev/sda mbr', then did the above again. Nothing seem to work.
My partition table is:
Code:root@slackware:/# gdlsk -l /dev/sda
GPT fdlsk (gdlsk) verslon 1.8.8
Partition table scan:
MBR: protective
BSD: not present
RPM: not present
GPT: present
Found valid GPT with protective MBR: using GPT.
Disk /dev/sda: 15628153168 sectors. 7.3 TiB
Model: ST8000DM004-2U91
Sector size (logical/physical): 512/4096 bytes
Disk Identifier (GUID): B6E976D5-15AA-499C-991E-3AD7185BB157
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33
First usable sector is 34. last usable sector is 15628153134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.8 KiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 16779263 8.1 Gi8 8200 Linux swap
2 16779264 15628053134 7.3 TIB 8300 Linux filesystemMy lilo.conf is:
Code:append=" vt.default_utf8=1"
boot = /dev/sda
bitmap = /boot/slack.bmp
bmp-colors = 255,0,255,0,255,0
bmp-table = 68,6,1,15
bmp-timer = 65,27,0,255
prompt
timeout = 1200
change-rules
reset
vga = normal
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda2
label = Linux
read-onlyBoot image is:
Code:# ls -l /mnt/boot/vmlinuz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 May 10 02:43 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-huge-5.15.19Any ideas on why I can't boot to Linux?