problem booting FC1 with kernel 2.6.7-1.459

[Satish Balay]

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Audsin Dev wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am using FC1 with 2.4.26 kernel. I felt like upgrading the FC 1 kernel to 
> 2.6.7. So I downloaded the kernel 2.6.7-1.459 rpm from 
> (http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/) and followed the 
> procedures mentioned in the http://fedoranews.org/jorge/howto/howto01.shtml 
> Below i will give the step by step procedure i followed.
>
> 1) downloaded the following rpms: kernel-2.6.7-1.459.i686.rpm, 
> kernel-doc-2.6.7-1.459.noarch.rpm, kernel-sourcecode-2.6.7-1.459.noarch.rpm, 
> kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.101.fedora.i386.rpm, 
> kernel-utils-debuginfo-2.4-9.1.101.fedora.i386.rpm from the arjan's website 
> (http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/)
>
> 2) sudo rpm -ivh kernel*.rpm (installed the rpm kernel as mentioned in the 
> fedoranews.org: http://fedoranews.org/jorge/howto/howto01.shtml)
>
> 3) sudo mkdir /sys
>
> 4) sudo echo "none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
>
> 5) sudo mv /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /root
>
> I could find vmlinuz-2.6.7-1.459 and initrd-2.6.7-1.459 in my /boot.
>
> I rebooted my FC1 with the kernel 2.6.7-1.459. It loads the Ext3-fs and frees 
> the unused kernel memory and after that i could see my cursor flashing 
> indefinitely and the booting doesnt proceed. The bleow is some of the lines 
> of my boot
>
> .....
> Red Hat nash version 3.5.14 starting
> Loading jbd.ko module
> Loading ext3.ko module
> Mounting /proc filesystem
> creating block devices
> creating root devices
> Mouting root filesystem
> kjournald  starting commit interval 5 sec
> Ext3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
> Freeing unused kernel memory 132k freeb
>
> After freeing the unused kernel memory..my cursor blinks indefinitely and the 
> boot doest proceed.
>
> Any suggestion to rectify this

Did you add the kernel boot option 'vdso=0' to /boot/grub/menu.lst

Satish