Probelm with First boot

[sophmod]

So i downloaded like 3 versions of Salix, tried to install all of them. The way its set up is Salix is on a dedicated harddrive and then i have a harddrive for windows. Durring the installation i chose the autopartition option, because i was just going to use the whole harddrive for it. I did not however create the USb like it asks you to do at the end of the process. But when i try to actually boot into salix i get error messages galore "couldnt mount because of unsupported optional features" "kernel panic - not syninc" after all the flying text of the boot it just hangs on a blank screen with a flashing curser in the corner.

my hardware is this, which is what i think might be the problem.
asus M4a89GTD Pro motherboard
AMD phenom II x6
4 gigs of ram
AMD radeon HD 6800 series

I have searched this forum and others to try and figure out the problem but i havent come up with anything other then the USB at the end of the installation, if thats really the problem thats silly.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you in advanced

[hakerdefo]

You need to modify your /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab files to only use the disk UUIDs instead of the device names. You can view the UUIDs of your partitions with,

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ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/

Now modify /etc/fstab entries. For example old /etc/fstab entry is like this

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/dev/sda1       /                ext4        defaults,noatime         1   1

Change it to loo like following by using the UUID

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UUID=xxxxx       /                ext4        defaults,noatime         1   1

In the above example xxxxx is the UUID of /dev/sda1
Now you need to change "root=" entry in your /etc/lilo.conf from something like this

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root=/dev/sda1

to

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root="UUID=xxxxx"]

You can use any live cd to accomplice the above.
I hope this solves your problem

[sophmod]

well it turns out that all my problems were with my graphix card. i took it out and now it boots up just fine. the only problem now is that it still only boots with a "core" install. which i have no ideea how to set up my internet or anything on slack. so i cant find a driver for my graphix card

[laprjns]

well it turns out that all my problems were with my graphix card. i took it out and now it boots up just fine.

So from this I assume that your motherboard has integrated graphic. Maybe there is a hardware conflict with the integrated graphics and the Radeon card. Try reinstalling the graphic card, and disable the integrated graphics card in the motherboard's BIOS.

the only problem now is that it still only boots with a "core" install. which i have no idea how to set up my internet or anything on slack. so i cant find a driver for my graphix card

I think your best path is to reinstall using the "Full" option.

[hakerdefo]

well it turns out that all my problems were with my graphix card. i took it out and now it boots up just fine. the only problem now is that it still only boots with a "core" install. which i have no ideea how to set up my internet or anything on slack. so i cant find a driver for my graphix card

The error you described "couldnt mount because of unsupported optional features" is not likely to occur due to graphics card related problem. Anyways wish you luck with a full install