I came across a similar problem resulting in kernel panic with pclinuxos installation but the issue was with Grub2. It turns out that grub2 starts counting from 1 and not from 0 as it was done in earlier versions of grub. So the simple solution was to change hd0,0 to hd0,1 etc. Of course if you are not installing grub2 this probably will not fix it.

Hi, thanks, but I'm using Grub 1.5 still.

I've been through the same hassle.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1590614

In case you're using "USB Enclosure" then I don't think it will work. Installing SliTaz into an USB Drive is differnet and not like installing it into a Hard Drive.

GRUB2 in my case solved the issue. All what I had to do is to find an OS with GRUB2 and should be light enough for my laptop.

So, are you using USB Enclosure?

@tnt1
You installed stable slitaz-3.0.iso
Does your /boot/grub/menu.lst look similar to this?
title  SliTaz GNU/Linux 1.0 (Kernel 2.6.30.6-slitaz)
       root(hd0,0)
       kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.6-slitaz root=/dev/hda1

If it does the menu.lst is likely correct so try adding acpi=off  or apic=off to the end of the kernel line.

Post your menu.lst if you need further assistance.

@mojo

It doesn't... I installed from 3.0.iso, and my menu.lst refers to (hd1,0) which I have to change to (hd0,0); and root=/dev/sdb1 - and that's the one that is causing kernel panic. I knowit refers sdb,as the drive was mounted as sdb when I installed, I don't know what I should rename it to,I have tried hda1, hd1, hd0, hda0, and still kernel panic.

@theforsaken

I am using a hard drive from a laptop, but the laptop has no boot from usb and no cdrom, it is really old, I have to take the hd out, put it in a ide external case, and connect it to another machine via usb. I have successfully done this with antix, but I cannot get it right with slitaz, and |I really want slitaz on here.

(on your ubuntu forum link, I have posted regarding my old antiX install...)

Hi tnt1,

I expected that :)
SliTaz has its own method when it comes to USB-Installation. I'm not on SliTaz right now but once I'll go to my other room, I'll edit this post.

In my case, NOTHING with GRUB Legacy worked. I had another hassle with antiX and if you're interesed, I could post the link of my thread here. The guys on antiX's forum did their very best to help but it just did not work.
At the end, as you may read it in my thread, I installed Mint Fluxbox and it worked without any problems.

So, I had exactly the same scenario of yours. I might try again to install SliTaz but to be honest I don't have much time these days to play with that old laptop. I did what I want ... proved that Linux can work on 12 yeas old machines while Windows can't :)