I've just messed up my fine-working kernel by adding support for my SB LIve! soundcard. I compiled the new kernel without errors, but when booting it I recieved the following msg:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004

Then comes an extensive output of registry values, and finally the msg:

Kernel panic: Attemped to kill the idle task!


I've tried to restore order by deselecting the SB Live! support and recompile, but I still get the same error msg. The original debian rc2 kernel boots properly.

Kernel version I use: 2.4.25
Debian version: 3.0 rc2 testing

simple answer recompile and pay attention when doing your make menuconfig or make xconfig, is sound included or compiled as module,etc...

sound not included at all. have tried dozens of configurations, nothing seems to help.

you CANNOT use a soundcard without sound support in your kernel.

Do I misunderstand something here? I do not whant sound right now, I whant my kernel to work. ALL sound-support is gone, so I don't expect that to work, but I still whant to boot my kernel.

Still, the error msg appears way before sound support os loaded (if used).