boot freezing

[Lobster_Johnson]

I installed Wolvix Cub 1.0.5 on my Dell Latitude Pentium II laptop.
It worked fine after the first reboot.
Then I reboot again and it just stops after "Starting sysklogd daemons: /usr/sbin/syslogd
so...what's the problem/what should I do ?

[Wolven]

I'm not sure what the problem might be, but a search in the Slax forums came up with thread describing a similar problem.  Take a look at it , and see if it provides a solution.

[Lobster_Johnson]

well, I took a look and tried this :

I booted the LiveCD and logged in as root. Then I executed:

# ldconfig -r /mnt/hda1    (Wolvix is installed to hda1.)

And it did nothing, just came up with the regular text a terminal opens up with.I wasn't sure weather what I was typing was right so I put a space before the # and replaced the l with an I - still nothing happened.I rebooted, and still- the same problem I started with.

Thanks alot, Lobster

[Wolven]

I was thinking perhaps this would work:

I found a Slackware reference to this exact problem. I edited the file, /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog to include "&" at the end of the line, /usr/sbin/syslogd.

[Lobster_Johnson]

how do I do that?
and what exactly do I do?
(sorry if I'm causing you any trouble)

[Wolven]

Boot Wolvix from CD, then find and edit the file on the hard drive partition where you installed Wolvix, then try to boot the HD install again.

You're not causing me any trouble, =) Problems needs to be resolved. let me know if it works or not.

Edit: in the file /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog change this:

syslogd_start() {
  if [ -x /usr/sbin/syslogd -a -x /usr/sbin/klogd ]; then
    echo -n "Starting sysklogd daemons:  "
    echo -n "/usr/sbin/syslogd "
    /usr/sbin/syslogd

To this:

syslogd_start() {
  if [ -x /usr/sbin/syslogd -a -x /usr/sbin/klogd ]; then
    echo -n "Starting sysklogd daemons:  "
    echo -n "/usr/sbin/syslogd "
    /usr/sbin/syslogd  &

Note the added '&' to the end of the last line quoted here.

[Lobster_Johnson]

Thanks, but it didn't work

[Wolven]

Ok, that was a bummer. How about if you try to reinstall or go for a Frugal install. Or perhaps you could give 1.1.0 beta a try. It's fairly stable now.

[Lobster_Johnson]

I think I will try a frugal install....what's the difference?

[Wolven]

Frugal install is a 'live' install to the hard drive, it's just like running Wolvix from a CD or USB stick, only it's running from the HD instead. This means that it won't behave like a 'full' normal install. There are certain limitations, for example: You'll need to set up a partition for saving changes, (done in the frugal installer) if not you'll loose all changes on reboot, just like when running from the CD.

[Lobster_Johnson]

It works!
Thank you again!