> I have a quad Pentium III xeon machine that I cannot get to
> boot using RedHat 5.2 and a compiled kernel > 2.0.36. When
> it tries to boot the 2.2.6 (for example) kernel, it gets to
> the "OK, booting the kernel" point and locks up. I must do a
> manual reset at this point. The system is running fine with
> the default 2.0.36 kernel installed, but I would like to move
> to the 2.2.6 kernel to implement RAID-0 and SMP.
Looks like you have bad version of LiLo or something. Try some other loader
to be sure (loadlin?)...
> Current (2.0.36) configuration is
> Kernel modules 2.1.85
> Gnu C 2.7.2.3
> Binutils 2.9.1.0.15
> Linux C Library 2.0.7
> Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.0.7
> Linux C++ Library 2.8.0
> Procps 1.2.9
> Mount 2.8a
> Net-tools 1.46
> Kbd 0.96
> Sh-utils 1.16
> Modules Loaded nfs autofs eepro100 appletalk ipx ncr53c8xx
> The machine has 1GB of memory (I use the append function of lilo to
> tell the kernel that it has something smaller -- 512M, or 960M) and
> 3 SCSI disks on the Symbios 53C896 bus.
> I have used both the sym53c8xx driver and the ncr53c8xx driver in the
> kernel and have yet to get either to boot. Any suggestions on what
> how to compile the kernel to get it to load would be much appreciated.
Since it hangs much earlier in boot process then any SCSI driver can be
activated it's not a problem here...
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