-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I recall getting errors with failed kernels with version 12.0 so I just manually copied the desired kernel images into my /boot directory and rebuilt lilo.conf by hand. That is, I manually edit my lilo.conf's the way I want them in advance and then run lilo. Worked every time for me. If installing from scratch, I would have to be sure and manually copy the kernels, carefully review the file structure of /boot and double check my lilo.conf. It isn't all that bad. But there is geek and experience factor that helps me. This could surely be a pretty big problem for newbies to Slackware. On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:33:27AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > The issues with slackware 12.0 not prompting for replacement of disk1 and > exploding when the /kernels/speakup.s directory cannot be found have been > made far worse in slackware 12.1. Earlier I wrote about a workaround for > slackware 12.0 in which all packages that were checked starting with > [f,k,t,x,y] needed to be unchecked and installed later no longer works in > slackware 12.1. You do get down to where the kernel copy is supposed to > happen but slackware 12.1 now errors out at that point and does not copy > any kernel automagically. If an upgrade path is possible and anyone > doing this will need to take the exclude off of kernel* because slackware > has recompiled all kernels for slackware 12.1 including speakup.s and put > all of the security fixes into them that were current at the date of this > kernel's release. The last time such a recompile was done was with > Slackware 7.0 at least by the people over at slackware.com. Understand > this bad experience has happened multiple times over here and on every > occassion I had a talking install since I did include the proper speakup > parameters to make it happen for this synthesizer. What happens after > the kernel fails to install is that it's also impossible to install lilo > since lilo needs as a prerequisite to have that kernel on that hard drive > living happily. - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIrSN+WSjv55S0LfERA3kFAKDtt5UhNvHGO0O0NXmT239LdK4aKACg8Puo IwrVm4ughgru5cAbt0JbcWU= =ngat -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
