--------------- cmyster: Dedicated to everyone who upgraded the kernel and forgot to run lilo... > Isn't the quickest way to get into an unbootable system by running this from the boot prompt of the installation media: huge.s root=/dev/sda1 rdinit= ro --- //[[wiki:user:brianl|Brian Lawrence]] 2012/09/13 05:12// --------------- > It was used as an example of a situation when one cannot boot into the system normally and needs an intervention. Are there other/better ways? sure. I like this method and this is a howto to chroot directly from the installation media, not a howto fix a bad boot. Of course anyone who thinks of better reasons to chroot from the installation media is free to add and modify, but as a howto IMO it is valid and important. \\ --- //[[wiki:user:cmyster|cmyster]] 2012/09/20 15:54// --------------- >> The instructions on the Slackware welcome screen (huge.s root=/dev/sda1 rdinit= ro) will only work in case your computer doesn't require an initrd to boot. If your computer is using LVM and/or is LUKS encrypted, then you will not be able to boot from the installation CD into your Slackware using that simple command. You will have to perform a chroot //after setting up the LVM mappings and unlocking any LUKS volumes//. This means that the HOWTO needs to be extended so that it also describes those cases. \\ --- //[[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]] 2012/09/20 06:15// --------------- >> Thanks for the input, I will add Eric's input to the article (it already has a notification regarding how simple my example is). I will add a stub regarding unlocking LUKS and setting up an LVM from the installation medias but I will need time to go over it as it is not something I want to mess up and it is something I have little experience with. Of course anyone can add to this wiki.\\ --- //[[wiki:user:cmyster|cmyster]] 2012/09/21 00:15// --------------- >>> Ok, after going over Eric's readmes and trying some stuff myself, I am hoping that this version is better. I really think it should be kept as simple as possible as the complexity here is huge. There is a blog I found (non-slackware) with a partially local partially cloud LVM that some partitions were using LUKS and some were using cryptoloops and it can go on like this forever.\\ --- //[[wiki:user:cmyster|Amit Ugol]] 2012/09/21 02:17// ---- >>>>I also have a few suggestions I want to submit as changes for the page. I'll pastebin them. >>>>"Volume preperation" should be "Volume Preparation" (typo fix). --- //[[wiki:user:tommyc|Tommyc]] 2012/10/12 15:46// >>>>>Thanks Tommy. I fixed this and some other typos. --- //[[wiki:user:sycamorex|Marcin Herda]] 2012/10/12 16:20// --------------- >>>>>>Changed "vgscan --mknodes" to "vgscan %%--%%mknodes" because the wiki was changing it to a hyphen. I also added 3 examples with permission from [[wiki:user:cmyster]]. (06-18-2013 on freenode in ##slackware) --- //[[wiki:user:tommyc|TommyC]] 2013/06/18 03:15//