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Re: System hangs
Posted: 16. Jul 2025, 21:03
by Van_Vinkle
Nothing happens.
The installer also freezes.
Re: System hangs
Posted: 16. Jul 2025, 21:12
by 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?
Re: System hangs
Posted: 16. Jul 2025, 21:36
by 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.
Re: System hangs
Posted: 16. Jul 2025, 22:11
by gapan
This is so weird. Did you change any of these files you mentioned earler?
/kernel
huge.s
bzImage
config
system.map.gz
Re: System hangs
Posted: 17. Jul 2025, 09:35
by Van_Vinkle
gapan wrote: ↑16. Jul 2025, 22:11
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
Re: System hangs
Posted: 17. Jul 2025, 09:48
by gapan
Wait, but you did change the files in the /boot directory?
Re: System hangs
Posted: 18. Jul 2025, 08:46
by 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.
Re: System hangs
Posted: 21. Jul 2025, 22:10
by 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):
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.
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.
Re: System hangs
Posted: 24. Jul 2025, 16:15
by 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.
Re: System hangs
Posted: 24. Jul 2025, 17:37
by 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
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?