Hi there,

Heres my scenario, ive downloaded the slackware iso(everything) and burnt as an image on a DVD with my DVD-ROM thats connected to my logic board via EIDE(ata-6).

My hardware:

Asus P5K SE Motherboard
Marvell 88SE6111 IDE Controller
1 x SATA-2 HD
1 x EIDE(DVD-ROM device connected)

Ive successfully booted the image, and loaded the kernel(hugesmp.s)

Partitioned the space on my (only) Hard drive being a SATA-2 connection

Ive entered the setup interface, and got as far as selecting the source media

However slack cannot detect my DVD-ROM with the image(which i assume contains the source media)

I've read elsewhere that the Marvell IDE controller is problematic, so i passed this option to the kernel when i boot = "hugesmp.s all-ide-generic"
But that does not help either.


so im stuck at this point, any advice much appreciated

Hi,

The 'Marvel IDE' is supported. Did you try the 'huge' kernel from the boot instead of the 'huge-smp'?

Hi there, yes i tried the huge kernel and still no luck.

I found a work around for now, i just extracted the slackware dir from the slack iso image, and placed the dir on a seperated partition and directed setup to that path. Which has worked.

Hi,

Glad to see you found a work around to get the system up.