Kernel and K6II500 on slack 12.1, any easy work arround?
 

Hello, I'm trying to install the newest Slackware on an old machine, It's a k6II550, 512mb ram... I'd like to set it up as a server for a friend.

It wont boot up with the default kernel, I need to use the huge.s one, so I've fully installed the Slackware with both cd1 and cd2 and tried to get up running, however, once I installed and tried to boot it didn't work.

I tried to mount /dev/hda1 on /mnt through the boot cd and edited the lilo conf to use the vmlinuz-XXXX-huge or something like that but whenever I try to start up the computer it keeps saying the processor doesn't support certain features.

I'd just like to use the old huge.s kernel, is there a way to do it easily or would be better to try and compile my own?

Thank you

I can confirm this. I have a box with a K6-III+ CPU and 256 MB RAM. I used a 12.0 CD to test but the CD will not boot with the hugesmp.s kernel. The CD boots with the huge.s kernel.

The boot loader configuration likely is pointing to the soft link vmlinuz. The slackware installation script always creates a soft link of vmlinuz. Likely the link is pointing to vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.24.5-smp rather than vmlinuz-huge-2.6.24.5.

Notice the two kernels are named siimilarly although not the same.

Boot with the CD1 and manually mount the partition containing the /boot file system. Check the soft link:

ls /boot/vmlinuz

If the link is pointing to the smp version, then change the vmlinuz soft link:

unlink vmlinuz
ln -sf vmlinuz-huge-2.6.24.5 vmlinuz

Thanks very much, that worked perfectly. I have done it before in the past.. but It couldn't cross around my mind..

Thanks.. solved :)