If you partitioned your drive and /usr is on a separate partition, it could be that alsactl isn't found at the time you see the message during the booting sequence. The wiki has information on how to define your sound card via bash profile processing: http://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_define_the ...

Thanks for the response, gapan. I thought that might be the answer, but I thought I'd check.

As a point of reference for those people attempting this, you can pull up the manpage for mkinitrd and build a command line to generate the initrd from it instead of using the mkinitrd_command_generator.sh ...

I installed Salix64 KDE 14.0.1 (I found Xfce 14.0.1 has the same issue) using LUKS+LVM, and I found a problem/issue. The install uses the 3.2.29 kernel while it installs 3.2.45. This difference makes using the mkinitrd_command_generator.sh, as recommended in the Slackware documentation for encrypted ...