From: cybersean3000 at domain yahoo.com
Date: Tue 02 Oct 2001 - 22:43:54 IST
On 2 Oct 2001, at 18:45, Ronan Cunniffe wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> >
> > this means it found your kernel .. so ignore all lilo stuff.. it fails
> > before init boot you have either set the wrong root device it should print
> > someat and tell you, forgot to add ELF binary support modularised it or
> > someat ...
> >
> > or did something like compile it for i686 on i586 or so on ..
>
> Wrong root device will give you a kernel panic (with a clear message)
> before init is run
>
> Wrong processor family will cause the kernel to halt practically on line
> 1. IIRC you never even get the message "Linux X.X.X booting...." But the
> proc family is (almost?) the first thing checked, and you get told (again
> with a clear message) what the problem is.
>
> My guess is that init is expecting X (a la 2.2.X) and getting Y from
> 2.4.X and going down in flames. It's just occurred to me that while init
> will have been modified countless times, there must still be some really,
> *really* old DNA in there. Anybody know more about this? (I mean
> actually *know* as distinct from a 30 second google result.)
>
The advice given was based on similar problems experienced when working
with RedHat 6.2 in a development environment. Just trying 2 help.
We could get into how he configured the source before compiling. Did
Jeremy just compile the source or use a tool like "make menuconfig" or
"make xconfig", did he save the current kernel configuration with a menu
utility and use it to compile the new kernel? There were reasons why
these questions were not asked yet, because the most common problems with
people trying a new kernel are related to omitting a step, or performing
a step out of sequence, usually boot loader related.
> Solution: either reread the last oh, two years worth? of kernel developer
> traffic to work out what needs updating, or acquire a full distro built
> around kernel 2.4.
>
> Ronan C
>
>
> --
> Irish Linux Users' Group: ilug at domain linux.ie
> http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug for (un)subscription information.
> List maintainer: listmaster at domain linux.ie
_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free at domain yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : Thu 06 Feb 2003 - 13:12:28 GMT