well i thought we would be at the same problem when i posted how to get past your's . well as you can see i edited my previous post.
what i did:
i made a new Linux vmachine,
-with an ide hard disk(in the advanced options of the harddisk)-
-I loaded the slackware 9.0 iso file into the virtual cd-rom drive
I powered on this vmachine
(this next section might not be in the exact same order but it should give you the info of what i did)
-I logged into the root by typing root.
-i chose US keyboard layout by hitting enter
-where it told me which kernel i wanted to load, i hit ENTER to load the bare.i kernel which it said is for ide harddisks (when i hit F2)
-i chose typed 'cfdisk' i typed 'yes' to set tables to zero and the i selected 'new' to partition the free space. I also selected the option 'write' to write a table which was needed for me to get into setup. then i 'quit' cfdisk'
-i now went back to 'setup' . and i got no warning of 'no partition' , so i set it all up. after it was finished installing the packages , 'setup' told me i had to reboot.
-So i rebooted...
{{now this is where i got that problem}}
just a black screen which doesn't respond with a white underbar in the top left , right after the bios info where i thought slackware was gonna load.
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i'm new to this guy's so alittle help for us
would be most useful i'm sure