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Have been trying to add a new install of Slackware on a separate HD to my current system of W98 and Mandrake. Problem is I get a kernel panic when I load Slackware from LILO on hda, but get a normal boot of it when I use the floppy I made at install. Have tried all sorts of combinations, but either get the kernel panic, or it seems the kernel loading with Slack tries to load the modules from the Mandrake disc, which just freezes the system. Here is a copy of the LILO residing on hda, which contains W98. Old Mandrake installed on hde, new Slack on hdb1.
What is the kernel panic message? If it is can't mount root file system, then see if adding
"root=/dev/hdb1" to the append line in lilo.conf do anything the next time you reboot.
I believe the answer is that you need vmlinuz and initrd.img in the boot folder on your slackware disk. I know you said that there were no such files there. Wonder how one would get them then? What I've done in the past is to copy those files to the Mandrake /boot folder. Unless I'm mistaken that worked for me when I was booting Redhat, Mandrake and Windows. Right now I'm only using Mandrake and Windows with grub. Hope this message at least points you in the right direction.
The kerne panic is for inability to load the file system. I tried appending it as suggested above, but no change.
The Slackware /boot/ on hdb1 does have a vmlinuz of the proper kernel, but no initrd. I reasoned (?) that initrd is not needed, since the OS will boot just fine without one when using the LILO floppy.
I tend to mount a variety of distribution's root partitions to a set of mount points within the distribution that I run LILO from - you then add entries which are of this form:
Did you rerun lilo after you updated lilo.conf? What is the file system of your second hard drive (i.e. ext2, ext3, reiser4)? Does the kernel support it?
BTW, your resume partition is on hde. Is that a third hard disk?
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