Boot Hangs After Building new Kernel
I've installed RedHat 7.1 on a Pentium 133 system. After building a custom kernel following the instructions provided in the RedHat manual the boot process hangs when I boot to the new kernel.
I don't get any kernel panic messages. The machine just hangs after decompressing the kernel and loading vmlinuz. It seems like the init process is what's actually hanging. I've built a custom kernel a few times on another machine (PIII 600 MHz) following the same instructions without any problems. I'm stumped. Any ideas on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated! |
a lot of times the instructions leave out the system.map file - it needs to be copied to the /boot directory from the compiling directory.
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I discovered that on a previous compile and found that make install copies the new System.map to /boot. I've done that.
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Could you post a copy of the bootup messages that you are seeing?
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my only guess is that you're not configuring something correctly when you're compiling the kernel. unfortunately, there's a lot of different things that could be. you might want to try to compile a minimal kernel, just enough to get basic command line progs running. you might be trying to include a hardware option that isn't included on the older system.
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DOH! You're right. Somehow I selected the wrong CPU type. I recompiled with the right processor type and now all is well.
Thanks to all who replied. |
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