Hi: I've just got an Acer notebook used, whose model name or number I have not been able to find. I came with windows 10 installed. I wanted to install slackware 14.1 but when booting it says "Kernel panic, something about the clock". And suggests using option noapic (which I think has to do with the interrupt controller). Typing "hugesmp.s noapic" at the promt it booted from a flash stick with an slackware 14.1 iso image. But neither cfdisk nor parted found the hard disk. Only the stick. blkid only shows the stick too.

The hard drive has a GPT partition table. May that be the cause? As to the kernel panic, windows 10 seems to have no problem booting.

Is there any specific reason you're using an older Slackware version on this new system? Try using a newer kernel (newer drivers) with Slackware 14.2 / -current.

I don't see any reason why 14.2 will succeed where 14.1 failed. I think just the slackware distribution can't understand this machine (netbook).

I've installed 14.1 on a netbook (older model) it should be fine, but abga provided excellent advice

14.1 is 5 years old and it's very possible the default kernel doesn't support your "newer" hardware.

Personally I'd try -current or at least 14.2, I'm yet to find a hardware configuration that Slackware won't run on

Ken

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Possibly Windows formatted the disk in such a way that lsblkid and other tools are lost, see this thread: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2287635

This being said others are right suggesting that you upgrade. blkid is shipped in the util-linux package which in Slackware 14.1 is version 2.21.2 that dates back 25-May-2012 and there have been a lot of changes since then.

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I bought this machine yesterday and, having just been in a computer shop, I've been said this machine has no hard disk. It has a label below the keyboard that says: eMMC 32GB. This would be the "hard disk". In short, it is flash memory. The behavior of blkid, parted and cfdisk is then understandable.

So 32GB it's all I have, but it suffices to install 14.2 64. I used something called unetbootin to transfer the 14.2 iso to the flash memory (pen drive), but when booting, a thing to do which I had first to change the bios settings from UEFI to Legacy, it booted a windows 7 install image I had before in the flash memory. However unetbootin was about two hours copying files. Perhaps using Rufus. Also I have 14.1 in another pendrive. I could boot this and use dd to transfer 14.2 the other pendrive. I'll see what I can do.