Quoting Vaughn Treude <vltreude@deru.com>:

> Hello again:
> I have yet another problem; this one is for the Slackware gurus out there.  I
> 
> cobbled together an ancient P166 machine with three small drives:  two IDE 
> and one SCSI, the latter on an initio controller.  I then installed Slackware
> 
> 9, putting root on the first IDE drive and /usr onto the SCSI, and home and 
> swap on the second IDE drive.  I never did get it to boot from the hard 
> drive, but now it no longer boots from floppy.   (This machine has no CD-boot
> 
> option.)   I believe I did the original install with the "scsi" boot image 
> (or it may have been scsi2 image, I don't recall.)   I also created a boot 
> floppy during the install, and I do have image 1 and image2 disks.  Every 
> time I try to boot it, it says "Loading vmlinuz ................  Ready" and
> 
> then hangs.
> I've tried all possible boot disks:  scsi, scsi2, adaptec, bare, and the one
> 
> I created.  They all do the same thing.  Is there an option I should give the
> 
> kernel at the boot: prompt?  I even tried creating a Knoppix 3.2 floppy, and
> 
> that wouldn't boot either.  I tried the "failsafe" option on that floppy, but
> 
> it complained that it couldn't find that version of the kernel - I supposed 
> they didn't have room for it on there.
> Any suggestions?  I'd like to get a Slack system up and running for testing.
> Thanks!
> 
> Vaughn Treude
> Nakota, Software, Inc.

Didn't notice if anyone else answered your questions, so here goes.

On the second Slackware 9 under ISOLINUX/SBOOTMGR is a great little boot disk 
program Smart Boot Manager. I quote:

"sbootmgr.dsk  This nifty little tool allows selecting various devices to boot
              from a menu, and even allows booting a CD-ROM in machines where
              the BIOS doesn't support it. . ."

Use Sbootmgr to boot to the CD root and look on the first or second CD for a 
kernel that you think might work. You might try a small install ignoring the 
SCSI drive and just using the two IDE drives. If that works then all you should 
need to do, I would think, is find a kernel that supports the SCSI controller. 
The Slackware documentation should help yhou there

Dennis Kibbe




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