Alan Hicks wrote:

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> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Alan Hicks dared to utter,
>> Yeah. Try recreating your device nodes by going into /dev on your hard
>> drive's root, and deletings all the hda entries, then running the
>> MAKEDEV script there.
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> Another thought, have you recompiled your kernel recently and included
> devfs support? This looks like something that ugly shit would do. Look
> here for pointers.
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> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linu.../msg00337.html

The Slax kernel uses devfs, that's what it sounds like is causing it.