H@L0_F00 Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 So I pop in the Slackware 12.1 DVD and boot without any extra parameters. It loads everything and starts going through hardware config/setup (whatever it's doing) but suddenly stops with a Kernel panic :( I'm trying to install it on my Dell Latitude D620 with 3 partitions: 1. NTFS, Windows XP 2. EXT3, Ubuntu 8.10 3. swap This is what I get: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 invalid compressed format (err=2) VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(8,2) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: 0300 39070080 hda driver: ide-disk 0301 33792696 hda1 0302 1 hda2 0305 4996183 hda5 0306 281106 hda6 1600 4590208 hdc driver: ide-cdrom Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,2 I used "root=/dev/hda5" because that's the EXT3 because I want to use that partition, which currently has Ubuntu 8.10 installed, but then it just gave me the Ubuntu login prompt I'm currently downloading 12.2 but I'm not sure that'll help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 4, 2009 Share Posted January 4, 2009 So I pop in the Slackware 12.1 DVD and boot without any extra parameters. It loads everything and starts going through hardware config/setup (whatever it's doing) but suddenly stops with a Kernel panic :( I'm trying to install it on my Dell Latitude D620 with 3 partitions: 1. NTFS, Windows XP 2. EXT3, Ubuntu 8.10 3. swap This is what I get: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 invalid compressed format (err=2) VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(8,2) Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions: 0300 39070080 hda driver: ide-disk 0301 33792696 hda1 0302 1 hda2 0305 4996183 hda5 0306 281106 hda6 1600 4590208 hdc driver: ide-cdrom Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,2 I used "root=/dev/hda5" because that's the EXT3 because I want to use that partition, which currently has Ubuntu 8.10 installed, but then it just gave me the Ubuntu login prompt I'm currently downloading 12.2 but I'm not sure that'll help Did you verify the download? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted January 4, 2009 Author Share Posted January 4, 2009 MD5? I sure did ;) The disk is pretty scratched up though Slackware 12.2 DVD ISO download will be done in about 10 mins so I'll try that EDIT---The Slackware 12.2 DVD worked like a charm ;) now I just have to find out how to config GRUB to be able to boot it haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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