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> 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.
How did you configure your 2.2.6 kernel ? Did you take 2.0.36's .config
and did make oldconfig ? If yes, some low level drivers aren't set
automatically like CONFIG_VT and some disk CONFIG_???IDE?? and then
booting freezes after "OK, booting the kernel".
I experienced this myself ...
-- Thomas > 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. > > Kelvin Edwards > System Administrator > Jefferson Lab > kelvin@jlab.org > > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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