I just upgraded to kernel 12.1, along with the config files keeping
thzm up to my setting.
Then i telinit 3 and i felt strange that :
#modprobe -l didn't output anything

so i rebooted and then i got an error message something like:
No kernel modules found
and the computer halted.

As I didn't foresee such a crash, I didn't keep any spare kernel, not
even the 2.6.21.5-smp.
so i can only use live linuxes like slax at the moment.
Actually I installed from the a/ directory the kernel packages
referring to the 2.6.24.5-smp.
This means i didn't install the huge one.
I didn't install kernel-modules-2.6.24.5-i486-2.tgz

but kernel-modules-smp-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2.tgz instead.
If that's the problem, how will i have to do to get it installed?

On May 11, 11:20 pm, heavytull <heavyt...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded to kernel 12.1, along with the config files keeping
> thzm up to my setting.
> Then i telinit 3 and i felt strange that :
> #modprobe -l didn't output anything
>
> so i rebooted and then i got an error message something like:
> No kernel modules found
> and the computer halted.
>
> As I didn't foresee such a crash, I didn't keep any spare kernel, not
> even the 2.6.21.5-smp.
> so i can only use live linuxes like slax at the moment.
> Actually I installed from the a/ directory the kernel packages
> referring to the 2.6.24.5-smp.
> This means i didn't install the huge one.
> I didn't install kernel-modules-2.6.24.5-i486-2.tgz
>
> but kernel-modules-smp-2.6.24.5_smp-i686-2.tgz instead.
> If that's the problem, how will i have to do to get it installed?

i took note of a part of the error message displayed just before the
computer halts

Kernel panic
....
no /sbin/init found on rootdev

Actually it seems the kernel cannot mount the main partition.
i though it is an issue of the initrd file.
What i actually did is to just keep the one of slack12.0 which was
working alright. but i just noticed in the miniHOWTO for that in
slack12.1 that the initrd had to be remade taking into account the
name of the kernel. so i though that is the problem.
but i tried to make the initrd file under slax. it still doesn't work.
here are the steps that i took:

#chroot /mnt/sda3 #my slack partition
#mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.24.5-smp -m ext3 -f ext3 -r /dev/sda3

i checked the node /dev/sda3 which points actually to the real slack
partition.

does anyone knows how to make a bootable cdrom from the kernels in
slackware/kernels????