Hi Forum

So, this is the setting :

Before dumping my working and slow Debian Install from one of my laptops, I want to test Slackware 13 64 with its hardware, Broadcom wireless, Nvidia GPU, 8 GB ram... etc, as well as check up if my apps install under Slackware... most of them are compiled from source, using icc/ifort and mkl ( intel c++, fortran and Math kernel Libraries )...in some applications this yelds MUCH faster binaries than gcc/gfortran compilations...

( the absence of alien or rpm may be a problem, since my Intel C++ and Fotran Compilers and Math kernel Libraries are binaries packed as rpms... do the install script converts them to t*z if I chose to install these in Slackware...? In Debian I managed to install them, only had to apt-get install for rpm and alien... )

Anyway, I have a spare USB HDD to play around with Slackware with this Laptop, but I have tried to install before, everything went allright, but at the moment of boot, a kernel panic killed my init...

Must I insert USB support modules in .huge kernel ( ahci, uhci, ehci, ... ) to be able to boot Slackware 13 from an USB HDD...?

Thanks in advance

Alex

Do jou have an append=rootdelay=20 in your lilo?

Need time to see the USB.

greats,

Theo

I have written a few notes about this:

http://linuxconfig.dyndns.org/lazy/L...vable_USB_disk