Smashing my head against the Wall - Hanging Kernel Booting
Mike Klinke
lsomike at futzin.com
Sat Sep 18 14:26:29 UTC 2004
On Saturday 18 September 2004 00:00, Dwaine Garden wrote:
> I just yumed against the latest version of the development tree.
> As of the 17th.
>
> I'm having a problem booting with a compiled version of the
> standard kernel from kernel.org.
> It's 2.6.8.1.
>
> After the initialization of the usb stuff. The cpu goes full
> steam and the machine just sits there. I did not have any
> problem with compiling a kernel before. So I though I have
> something wrong with my grub.conf.
>
> Just to let you know, kernel 2.6.8-1.541 boots fine. But since
> I do development work with the usbvision driver. I use the base
> kernel from kernel.org.
>
> What am I missing? I did turn off the SCSI stuff, because I
> thought it was the problem. There is no indication that there
> is a problem. Just stops booting and the cursor sits there.
>
> Thanks...
> Dwaine.
Dwaine,
Could the fact that the "dev-" package has been removed in favor of
the "udev" mechanism be part of your problem; i.e. have you run
mkinitrd against your compiled kernel?
Regards, Mike Klinke
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