[SOLVED] I'm getting a kernel panic on a fresh install, am stuck.

RandomTroll · 02-17-2019, 10:11 PM

I first installed Slackware 22 years ago, last installed it 10 years ago. That disk is failing so I bought a new one, installed the way I remember, but it crashes on boot. I searched for Slackware install on the Internet and found references to bare.i and floppies - all the stuff I did in '97. It all seemed outdated. I posted another thread in hardware, but maybe it was too specific. What's the most up-to-date install instructions. I fdisk-ed, mkfs.ext4-ed, installed all the packages, lilo-ed...

camorri · 02-18-2019, 12:42 AM

Is there something wrong with the information here?

-->http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:install

Kernel panics. Which kernel, huge or generic? Did you create an inird file for the generic kernel? If not, that will cause a panic on most systems.

RandomTroll · 02-18-2019, 08:57 AM

[QUOTE=camorri;5963461]Is there something wrong with the information here?

-->http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:install

Quote:

'Setting a bootable flag to a desired partition.'

?

Otherwise I pretty much did all that.

Quote:

Originally Posted by camorri

Kernel panics. Which kernel, huge or generic? Did you create an inird file for the generic kernel? If not, that will cause a panic on most systems.

I started with the 2 I built, for 4.20.10 and 4.20.8, then tried huge: all 3 yielded the same result.

RandomTroll · 02-18-2019, 10:45 AM

I removed the working drive, attached it with the USB adaptor, get the same error: something must be wrong with my USB ports.