i installed slackware 12.2 successfully
at first i had the following problem
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-error-753732/
when i got it solved(may be) by refering the following thread
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-panic-749003/
new problem popped up..
when i boot, i get the kernel panic and also says try giving parameter init=(something like that).. what might the problem? how can i solve it?also i am new to slackware.

thanks in advance
mobin

I have had a look at, and remember, your original thread. Are you now booting with an initial ram disk ? Have you kept a lilo stanza for the huge kernel and if so does it work ? I think we all need more information to help you.

thanks for reply.. i use grub.. when using the huge kernel it gives me kernel panic as stated in my previous thread
edit:i will show my menu.lst
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default 0
timeout 10
uuid be605e8f-0c90-4e85-86d8-f618ad16c431
splashimage=/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Fedora 11, kernel 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64
uuid be605e8f-0c90-4e85-86d8-f618ad16c431
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 root=UUID=a085c593-3a2b-4199-b363-b8b93680c4f9 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64.img
quiet

#title Fedora 11, kernel 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 (recovery mode)
#uuid be605e8f-0c90-4e85-86d8-f618ad16c431
#kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64 root=UUID=a085c593-3a2b-4199-b363-b8b93680c4f9 ro single
#initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64.img

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
uuid be605e8f-0c90-4e85-86d8-f618ad16c431
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=ab353052-71a5-4e95-bd92-82a077c9df7c ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

#title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
#uuid be605e8f-0c90-4e85-86d8-f618ad16c431
#kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=ab353052-71a5-4e95-bd92-82a077c9df7c ro single
#initrd /initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

#title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+
#uuid be605e8f-0c90-4e85-86d8-f618ad16c431
#kernel /memtest86+.bin
#quiet

title Slackware 12, kernel 2.6.27.7
uuid be605e8f-0c90-4e85-86d8-f618ad16c431
kernel /vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.27.7-smp root=UUID=ae3e940b-6afa-4fa3-be7b-566b0ea66967 ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.gz
quiet

title Slackware 12, kernel 2.6.27.7
uuid be605e8f-0c90-4e85-86d8-f618ad16c431
kernel /vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.27.7-smp root=UUID=ae3e940b-6afa-4fa3-be7b-566b0ea66967 ro quiet splash
quiet


### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title Windows Vista (loader)
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda5
title Microsoft Windows XP Embedded
rootnoverify (hd0,4)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

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Hi,

Instead of reference a current post that still isn't resolved you should stay within the original thread.

You've just 'dupe' the problem in this post without resolving in the original. This will cause you and the helpers a lot of heart ache or just plain problems.

By reading the post(s) it seems that you have '/boot' on another partition for other distributions that you are sharing with Slackware? Why?

It does seem that your 'grub' is not configured properly since your kernel is panicking.

This thread has been reported as a 'dupe'. Maybe the mod will combine?

sorry if i had done anything wrong. i thought that it is a new problem so started with a new thread.

This doesn't work for Slackware, IIRC:
root=UUID=???
You need to supply a regular device name.

It has got to be something like

title Slackware 12.2
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-generic-smp-2.6.27.31-smp root=/dev/hda2 splash=silent vga=791
initrd /boot/initrd.gz
boot

That is how I boot my slackware with Grub menu.lst. Check the right kernelversion and the names of the devices.

Good luck!

thank you guys for your help.. i changed the grub as mentioned to their device names and now i can boot the slackware with huge kernel. when i try to boot the generic kernel it gives me the following error
what might be the problem??

Did you build your initrd.gz according to the README.initrd as found in the /boot directory? With it you can build an initrd.gz for your generic kernel. I build mine with refering to ext3, not reisererfs as shown in the example you can find in the README. But that depends on how you made your partitions

no i didnt use reiserfs as my filesystem to build initrd..i build initrd using initrd command generator from the link
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/tool...d_generator.sh

This script is now contained in Slackware 13.0 as part of the "mkinitrd" package - you find it as Eric

i didnt try slackware 13.. i cant solve my problem with slackware 12.2..

Somehow I've got the feeling, with regard to the error-messages, that there is a wrong init-tree set up for your generic kernel. Couldn't that be what's causing the trouble?

another thing i want to mention is that my initrd is only of 210 kb while my ubuntu and fedora initrd has got the size of 7.2mb and 3.2mb resply(dont know if that matters).

Hello,

Try to recreate the initrd image file manually using this command: