[ILUG] 2 Questions, new kernel problem & X fixed font problem

[reibrnd]

Howdy all, 
I have two questions that appear to be linked in some way. Having recently
installed RedHat 7.2, I wanted to upgrade the kernel, to at least 2.4.10 and 
then patch it up to the latest version.

Now the the 2.4.10 compile went fine, but when I booted into it, it had a wee
kernel panic, and told me to try and pass the 'init=' option to the kernel...?

Is it asking me to tell it what runlevel to go into or wha? 
I rebooted and tried passing 'boot: 2.4.10 -init 3 (and 5) ', but to no avail?

Is it possibly a problem with ext3 that I selected as the default fs for the 
new
install.

Now the second problem. When I then tried booting into my stock kernel, 
the default install one, which is 2.4.7-10, X would not start. I checked the 
error log, and it told me that it could not find the 'unix:/7800' font, and a 
little below, told me it was not able to load the 'fixed font',

Ergo, the X server kept crashing. Does any one have any suggestions as to how 
I
can remedy either of these problems?

Cheers,

Richard


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Richard Eibrand,
Department of Computer Science
School of Computing
Dublin Institute of Technology
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Email : richard.eibrand at dit.ie