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> Just to refresh my (and others') memory -- this is the Zipslack installation > we are discussing, isn't it? yes > How did you create the "clean empty partition"? If you used DOS/Win fdisk, > what partition number was it? If you used something else, what was it? What > EIDE device is the drive (primary master, primary slave, secondary master, > or secondary slave)? What size is the drive and how many partitions in total > does it have? It's on the primary slave drive. It was partitioned automatically by win95 when the drive was installed as it was too large to be recognised. Then it was compressed with drive space.... and then the host was again compressed etc. The slackware program was originally installed on drive U: hosted by drive S: When this didn't work I reinstalled it on drive H: hosted by drive D: On the slave drive there are 6 host drives and 11 compressed drives, with only 4 of them in use (now with the 2 slackware installations there are 6 in use. > EXACTLY what drive/directory are you on/in when you run the loadlin command? I shut down windows to reboot in DOS, go to the drive where it's located, and then to the Linux directory. > EXACTLY what does that command look like (other than your varying the root > drive designator)? I enter "loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 rw" > I strongly suspect this is just a simple error of drive or directory > designation, not a basic system or package problem, but I can't be certain > from your description. I suspect so also but what is the problem? perhaps it can't run from a compressed drive?? > Where do you get the "hint" you refer to below? After I enter the command, the program goes through its installation and produces 3 pages of results along the way. When it displays the 'partition check:' it displays "hda:[EZD][remap 0->1][786/64/63]hda1 hda4 hdb:[EZD][remap 0->1][700/255/63]hdb1 hdb2 <hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9>" According to the FAQ file it should be one of these displayed, however, the hda1 and hda4 returns the "kernel panic" error. Using hdb1 returns "mounting root VFS:mounted root (umsdos filesystem) unable to open an intitial console" and the rest of them return "attempt to access beyond end of device" This leads me to believe that hdb1 should be the right one.?? Gene Hitz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gene Hitz -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
