I follow your tips, typing 3 to the boot options, but an error occurred: "Waiting for device /dev/hda6 to appear .....not found -- exiting to /bin/sh sh: can't access tty; job control turned off" The difference is that Slackware probably builds all their IDE drivers into
On Thursday 10 November 2005 13:42, Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva wrote: the kernel, or include all of them in the initrd (dunno which, I haven't worked with Slack in ages), while SUSE only puts what's needed in there. So you previous board probably had a ALi chipset (popular on boards K6 boards of that era), while the new one is a VIA. when you boot of the rescue CD, d an lsmod and make note of which VIA module is loaded.
Ps--I tried Rescue mode: $mkdir /mnt/gonow $mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/gonow $mkinitrd -R -u --reboot--
You're leaving out a crucial step. Edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel, and add the required module to the list. Then make the new initrd. Hans