Hello, I have been working on optimizing Slackware 11 for my system.

Without Hdd S.M.A.R.T (Does that stand for Self monitoring, analysis and reporting technology?) enabled in my bios, I could not boot my Slackware install.

I could use cfdisk to setup my boot/swap partitions, and Slackware would install just fine, but upon reboot, I would see "DISK BOOT FAILURE."

That said/solved, I have tried both the bare.i (2.4) kernel, and the huge26 kernel(From /extra dir I think it is.) for Slackware installations.

With my 2.4 kernel Slackware install, I can recompile and install the kernel without problems. The 2.6 kernel install, however, gives me the VFS kernel panic error when I try to boot my recompiled/installed kernel. I am using an IDE hard-drive, with the ext2 file system. I shouldn't need to use the init ramdisk function with the ext2 file system I am thinking?

"There is something here that I don't quite grasp." (To quote Jack S. if I may.)

Aside from my 2.6 kernel recompile problems on my system, Slackware 11 runs fast and fully functional for me.

The newest NVIDIA graphics driver doesn't work quite right for me, so I went into their ARCHIVE, and installed an earlier driver.

I know that if it isn't broken, I shouldn't fix it, but it is bugging me not being able to recompile the 2.6 kernel, and have it work on my system...

Any tips/suggestions?

Thank you
Mark