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Many thanks to maruzin for the info, I got slack to install, but as with installing to SD card memory, I get a kernel panic trying to load the root device. Here is the error:

Code:

VFS: cannot open root device "802" or unknown-block(8,2)

I do not know if this error is caused by the "unknown" partition that Acer uses for recover and also might act as an os interpreter between the netbook and the os. Needless to say when i tried to remove this partition, I got an "os not found" error on almost all flavors I tried, slack, fedora and centos. Lilo looks pretty normal, with boot=/dev/sda2 (sda1 is the mystery Acer partition).

Can I edit lilo.conf to fix this? Any ideas why I get the same error if I install to a 16GB SD flash card? Same error code when trying to boot off of the internal sata/pata drive.

Maybe I should not try to install the boot loader on the MBR?

Here is Maruzin's original reply on "no disk" during an install.

Quote:

Originally Posted by maruzin View Post

If you are trying to install slackware on your Dell mini laptop and after you boot with the install disk you can't see your hard drive you may need to load the pata_sch module. (This worked for me.)

# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
# mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom

# installpkg /mnt/cdrom/slackware/a/kernel-modules-smp-2.6.29.6_smp-i686-2.txz

# modprobe pata_sch

# fdisk -l

You should see your hard drive now.

Partition your drive and then type "setup" to start the install as normal.