Re: Kernel 2.5 boot failure [SOLVED]

[Mark Shuttleworth <mark@hbd.com>]

She boots! Thanks to Bart Trojanowski for much help.

I'm posting this to the list in case someone else runs into the same 
problem trying to build kernel 2.5 on Debian unstable. The symptom was 
an apparently frozen screen after the message 'Uncompressing Linux... 
Ok, booting the kernel.'

First, I needed to install module-init-tools. These are needed for the 
new-style kernel modules in 2.5.

Then Bart suggested that it might be a problem with the console config 
in the kernel I was building:

Bart Trojanowski wrote:

> You need to enable virtual terminal support
>
> CONFIG_VT=y
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
>
> It may also be PTYs...
>
> CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
> CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256
This nearly solved the problem. I just needed to jiggle to config a bit 
more.

I think the extra magic incantation was another config option:

CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y

Hope this helps someone else.

Thanks Bart,
Mark

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