Smashing my head against the Wall - Hanging Kernel Booting

[Mike Klinke]

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