as stated above i attempted to upgrade a ver2 system to a ver3
it sat in the grub menu, i saw on the old forum
http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/2187/how-to-upgrade-to-slitaz-cooking/p1
that this problem isnt unique to me {for once its not my noobiness, lol} something messes up the kernel
it further states there is a fix at-
http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/2152/after-cooking-upgrade-no-hardware-drivers-loaded-no-xorg
but that link is apparently dead
also worth noting, i used the slitaz installer with the upgrade option to go from the aircrack-ng ver2 cooking version to current ver3
also sorry for near-spamming the forum since joining recently, my enthusiasm coupled with my noobiness is a bad combo