System hangs

[Van_Vinkle]

Nothing happens.
The installer also freezes.

[gapan]

OK, so that does not make much sense. There is nothing at that point that has to do with the new kernels. It should have worked exactly as the original iso.

Can you try the original iso, without the updated kernels? Does it go past that point?

[Van_Vinkle]

The original salix64-xfce-15.0.iso runs well. It starts the installation, but I aborted it. And, on second thought, it would be easier and faster to install the original iso. When installed, I could change the kernel.

[gapan]

This is so weird. Did you change any of these files you mentioned earler?

/kernel
huge.s
bzImage
config
system.map.gz

[Van_Vinkle]

This is so weird. Did you change any of these files you mentioned earler?

/kernel
huge.s
bzImage
config
system.map.gz

No.
I haven't intentionally modified any other files.

The directory tree is organized as follows:

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salix64-xfce-15.0.iso
	EFI
		BOOT
			tools.cfg
			osdetect.cfg
			initrd.img
			huge.s
			grub-embedded.cfg
			grub.cfg
			bootx64.efi
	isolinux
		ter-i16b.psf
		message.txt
		menu.c32
		isolinux.cfg
		isolinux.bin
		iso.sort
		initrd.img
		f1.txt
		efiboot.img
		boot.cat
	kernels
		usr
			doc
				kernel-firmware-20250708_99d64b4
		lib
			modules	
				6.12.37
			firmware
		install
			slack-desc
			doinst.sh		
		boot
			vmlinuz-6.12.37
			System.map-6.12.37
			config-6.12.37
		kernel-firmware-20250708_99d64b4-noarch-1slint.meta
		kernel-firmware-20250708_99d64b4-noarch-1slint.md5
		kernel-firmware-20250708_99d64b4-noarch-1slint.dep
		kernel-6.12.37-x86_64-1slint.meta
		kernel-6.12.37-x86_64-1slint.md5
		kernel-6.12.37-x86_64-1slint.dep
	salix
		aaa
		basic
		core
		efi
		efi-gui
		full
		kernels
			kernel-6.12.37-x86_64-1slint.dep
			kernel-6.12.37-x86_64-1slint.md5
			kernel-6.12.37-x86_64-1slint.meta
			kernel-firmware-20250708_99d64b4-noarch-1slint.dep
			kernel-firmware-20250708_99d64b4-noarch-1slint.md5
			kernel-firmware-20250708_99d64b4-noarch-1slint.meta
		settings

[gapan]

Wait, but you did change the files in the /boot directory?

[Van_Vinkle]

I'm confused a bit. Well, I'm confused a lot.

As said in past posts, I've got a minor problem (sometimes the system freezed) to another bigger: I could not enter Salix.

Now I can go to Salix. Don't ask me what I did. I touched a lot of configurations and something was well.

Then we have returned to the first step. The solution seems to change the kernel. But, please, tell me what exactly I must do.

[gapan]

I was trying to give you instructions on how to create an iso with the new kernel packages included, but forget about it. If you have a salix 15.0 system with the default kernel already, it is simpler to just manually update the kernel.

OK, so slackware current right now has a slightly newer version than slint, so we can use those packages. So, go to the slackware current repo:
http://slackware.uk/slackware/slackware ... ackware64/

and get the kernel packages. They are in different directories, so make sure you download all of them.

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./a/kernel-firmware-20250717_6fc20e0-noarch-1.txz
./a/kernel-generic-6.12.39-x86_64-1.txz
./d/kernel-headers-6.12.39-x86-1.txz
./k/kernel-source-6.12.39-noarch-1.txz

Put them all together in one place.

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$ $ ls -1 kernel*.txz
kernel-firmware-20250717_6fc20e0-noarch-1.txz
kernel-generic-6.12.39-x86_64-1.txz
kernel-headers-6.12.39-x86-1.txz
kernel-source-6.12.39-noarch-1.txz

Remove all previous kernel packages:

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sudo spkg -d /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/kernel-*

Install the new kernel packages (run from inside the directory you downloaded them to):

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sudo spkg kernel-*.txz

Make sure that everything is installed:

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$ ls -1 /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/kernel-*
/var/lib/pkgtools/packages/kernel-firmware-20250717_6fc20e0-noarch-1
/var/lib/pkgtools/packages/kernel-generic-6.12.39-x86_64-1
/var/lib/pkgtools/packages/kernel-headers-6.12.39-x86-1
/var/lib/pkgtools/packages/kernel-source-6.12.39-noarch-1

Create an initrd. This will create a /boot/initrd.gz file which is needed for your system to boot as the only kernel in current is the generic one.

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sudo geninitrd

I assume your system uses EFI and your using elilo to boot. So, copy the kernel and initrd in the EFI directory:

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cd /boot/efi/EFI/Salix-Xfce-15.0
sudo cp /boot/vmlinuz ./
sudo cp /boot/initrd.gz ./

And finally make sure that the elilo.conf file in the same place mentions the initrd. Among others, it should have these lines:

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image=vmlinuz
        label=vmlinuz
        read-only
        initrd=initrd.gz

there should also be an append line (don't touch that) and a few lines above the image section (also don't touch these).

And that's it. You should be able to boot into your new kernel now.

[Van_Vinkle]

Thank you very much.

I'll do it. But before put my hands in the flour, I should tell you that my system starts with Grub, not Elilo. Probably here is where I lost the door entrance to Salix. Then, give me, please, the tip.

I must say that Salix is not the only Linux in my system, despite it is the first and principal. There is also a derivative of Debian.

[gapan]

I'm writing these from memory as I don't have grub here. You still need to copy the new kernel and initrd to the EFI directories. Only at the last step, you should run

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sudo update-grub

instead.

Also make sure the initrd.gz file is mentioned in the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file.

Oh, and since you mentioned it, does your debian derivative freeze too?