Slackware Kernel trouble

mz_74x · 06-13-2003, 07:51 AM

I'm a newbie slack user and have been having trouble booting my newly Compiled Kernel, It doesn't say that it's a Kernel Panic but maybe it freezes too early...

After Compiling my Kernel (Properly, doing all the stuff blah blah blah)
i boot the new kernel in lilo and my computer freezes before decompressing the kernel
the line it freezes at is right in the begining, which reads:

Loading new.....

then it locks up, and CTRL ALT DEL wont work etc... (Its locked up, frozen)

so anyone got any help?

whansard · 06-13-2003, 08:03 AM

time for do over

mz_74x · 06-13-2003, 08:08 AM

No kidding!! already done that about....... 10 to 1,000,000,0000000000........ a freaking billion times, wiped the old source code extracted it again (and again and again).

any other ideas?

whansard · 06-13-2003, 08:51 AM

i have many times run into an option in a certain
version of the kernel that crashes on whatever machine.
the quickest way is often the old binary sort method.
sort of. change every option you can, and see if that
works. then change half of them back. if that doesn't
work, change that half back, and change the other half,
then half of that half. it doesn't take too long to narrow
it down.

Rodrin · 06-13-2003, 11:21 AM

whansard may indeed be on the right track. It may be some kernel option that you enabled that your hardware doesn't like. I remember having trouble with certain kernels on my laptop because its BIOS didn't properly meet certain standards. To help rule out other possibilities, you could also post the lilo.conf file you are using to boot from. If you want more feedback about possiblities you could list your hardware and the exact kernel version you have recompiled (perhaps it's the one the comes with Slack 9?).

tipaul · 06-13-2003, 03:17 PM

Just like my prob with my sound...

It was working great until I got into kernel recompile and deactivate most of the stuff I don't need...

Now i'm at the position to find what is bugging my sound... (I've recovered everything back to original for the sound configuration but doesn't work... So it's something else, somewhere else...!!!)

snidx2 · 06-14-2003, 10:05 AM

how did you fix it mz_74x?