On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 01:41:28 +0000, Joost Kremers wrote:
>> GRUB boots the Slackware kernel but it panics :-(
>> I presume it panics because it's the vmlinuz-ide-2.4.20
>
> probably, because your slack is on a scsi disc, but this kernel probably
> doesn't have scsi support.

Also, the BIOS has to be able to read the media on which the kernel
resides. If the BIOS can't boot the SCSI device, the adaptec.s kernel
must be on media that the BIOS *can* read. That may mean copying the
Slackware kernel to another distro's (or Windows) filesystem.
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