(This is my first question to the list, and I'm totally inexperienced with
Linux, and have had a only a tiny amount of experience on a SUN
Workstation, so I'll try not to make too much of a fool of myself.)
For all of you unfamiliar with Zipslack, it's an installation of Slackware
3.5 that's designed for those of us too impatient (or in my case, too
naieve) to try and install LILO and repartition their hard disk. It uses
Loadlin and UMSDOS, and is downloaded as a 32 MB zip file that is
uncompressed onto a DOS partition.
Anyway, the first time I tried to boot the kernel ( on /dev/hda2 ), it
opened a virtule console and was able to detect some of my hardware...but
after it started to load UMSDOS (6.0, I think ?), there was an error
message relating to "bread," and the system halted with a "kernel panic."
My kernel version is 2.0.34. Any help would be appreciated, and I thank
you in advance. One more thing...if it matters, I've got Windoze 98 (which
seems to be becoming less and less stable by the day). If there's any more
information I could provide that would be of help, please let me know.
Thanks again.
