Re: 2.4.10 doesn't boot

From: Hans-Peter Jansen (hpj@urpla.net)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2001 - 17:12:43 EST


Stefan M. Brandl wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:11:13PM +0200, Stefan M. Brandl wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm unable to boot Kernel 2.4.10 (I also tried 2.4.10-ac3).
>> I get:
>>
>> LILO Loading linux ...........
>> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
>>

>Reply to my on mail.
>I was trying to boot an Athlon optimized kernel on a Pentium Box.
>Now it's optimized for Pentium and it boots.

This one caught me, too (building kernels for diskless ws).
Isn't it feasable to build in a check for the compiled architecture
into the loader, and kernel panic instead of just dying...

>Stefan

Hans-Peter
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