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Debain kernel 2.4 won't boot.

  • 12-11-2003 11:50pm
    #1
    DeadBankClerk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭


    I have recently installed Debain Woody. It boot perfectly with linux kernel 2.2.

    I then installed the 2.4 kernel image from the CD and it will not boot. When i boot it from lilo it says: 
    Loading kernel..............
    And just stops doing anything.

    So i tried to build it from source a few times and got exactly the same problem.

    Has anyone run into this before?
    Or is there a way that I can view some debugging information or a log file of what is failing?

    Thanks,


Comments

  • #2
    BenH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭BenH


    When you installed the new kernel, you did run lilo before rebooting didnt you?

    Regards,

    Ben


  • #3
    DeadBankClerk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭DeadBankClerk


    Yes :)
    I have made and failed with 4 built kernels and 1 pre-packaged debian one.


  • #4
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Typedef


    Maybe.

    You compiled for the wrong cpu architecture or you compiled some bad setting for your console video driver.

    Try a vesa frame buffer video console and/or just regular vga.


  • #5
    DeadBankClerk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭DeadBankClerk


    The VESA/VGA sounds like a plan.

    Windows says my architecture is:

    "Intel (R) Pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz AT/AT COMPATIBLE 1,047,536 KB RAM."


  • #6
    Typedef
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Typedef


    Recompile.

    Include PCMCIA/APM(not acpi)/make sure you select all the necessary stuff for your console driver, to work, make sure in general options you have your cpu type set.

    That should be enough to get you booted and then you can recompile till you get up and running.

    If your having difficulty booting your system

    From the prompt of most distros installation cd

    linux mount root=/dev/hda(whatever)

    should load for you a kernel image called "linux" this image could equally be called "linux-scsi-patch" or "linux-pcmcia-driver-patch" etc and informs the kernel of the root partition to mount.

    Depending on the version of the kernel you are running, there might even be
    /proc/config.gz

    Which should when uncompressed fit neatly into linux-source-version-x/.config

    and from there you should be able to do a
    make menuconfig

    and tweak the options to your hearts content, based on a running kernel configuration.


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