I have another booting problem but I think it is caused by my mis-understanding of something. Maybe some of you good explainers can make this clear for me. I thought that the kernel was independent from the software running on a particular machine. I know that a person runs some distribution, then often downloads later kernel source, recompiles it and everything is fine. I thought I'd start by doing something simpler. I simply tried to boot Slackware 8 with a speakup-enabled slackware 9 kernel, and later I tried to use a slackware 8 boot disk after I'd installed 9.1 on my hard disk. In both cases, I couldn't boot. I got a kernel panic (which speakup read fine.) Why? --Debee
