Please excuse my shouting in the subject line, but the problems booting Slackware-14.2/x86_i586 from the internal SSD on the Dell Latitude 2100 have been resolved. Yay!!
The original BIOS version (A03) was from 2010. The latest version, A06, allowed the system to boot from the internal drive. This upgrade was the main issue. But it still would not boot into the small, generic-smp kernel because no modules were loaded; it booted into the huge-smp kernel which includes the modules. This allowed me to recognize that I erred in making the initial ram disk, and I admit that I must have specified the kernal as 4.4.14 rather than 4.4.14-smp. Mea culpa (twice). Re-running mkinitrd specifying -k 4.4.14-smp fixed this issue. So, now, after months of perplexing me and Ed, I have a running small portable and will be able to finish configuring it. Whew! Thanks for the patient help from folks here. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
