Kernel Panic - not syncing
Had installed Slackware 12 into a usb thumbdrive.
Installed normally and rebooted into a kernel panic, message below Quote:
- through Debian's grub (on the same thumbdrive) - through usb stick - through Slackware CD 1 but all resulting in the same error message. Had tried reinstalling Slackware multiple times into the usb thumbdrive's different partition, sdb1, sdb2 and even using the entire thumbdrive space. Still booted into the same error. Had confirmed that the thumbdrive is working properly by installing and getting it working with Debian and Arch. Appreciate if anyone know what else I can try and a copy of your Slackware's grub stanza, for testing. THANKS in advance for the help. :newbie: |
Hi
welcome to lq see the similar threads part below .. there are more than enough threads on the same problem .. did you go through them? they would probably give you answer faster anyways ... short answer is .. you need to mkinitrd for a generic kernel or use the hugesmp.s kernel to boot. I don't know how well it will work for a USB install . Search on lq , there are quite a few threads on how to install slackware on USB drives. |
Here's the thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-drive-566697/ You might not need the initrd, try the rootdelay=10 method, that is supposed to delay the mounting of the root file system and let the USB flash drive initialise. |
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thanks for the link. Will read through them :p think you can share Slackware's grub stanza? wanted to add it back into grub. |
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was die tired after reinstalling Debian to get online, and .. (add more excuses) .... I AM EMBARASSED :o ! thinking that the problem is due to something wrong that I've done during installation, was reinstalling over and over and over again for the past few days and was a little disorientated. will read through the links and get it working :D anyway, can you share the grub stanza for Slackware? would want to add it back into grub. THANKS |
lazylogic, you may get a slow response for the GRUB stanza since Slackware ships with LILO, and only a minority of users use GRUB to boot it. My LILO stanza is as follows:
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image = /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.21.5-smp Code:
title Slackware |
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Hi all, managed to get into Slackware .. finally :p
What I've done is adding this into grub Quote:
Now comes the difficult (but interesting) part ... finding time to read the slackbook :study: |
Lazylogic - good to hear you're up and running. What kernel did you use?
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vmlinuz is linked to vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.21.5-smp still trying to get time to do some reading. Slackware 12 is installed, that's all. yet to setup the wireless connection and so on. so will take some (or maybe many many some) time :p |
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