Re: can't boot kernel 2.4.12

[Jaakko Niemi <liiwi@lonesom.pp.fi>]

Shea Martin <sam060@mail.usask.ca> writes:

> have modutils v. 2.4.x, and bin86 installed.
> I built kernel 2.4.12.
> ran lilo, etc.
> 
> 
> kernel has elf support statically compiled.
> 
> At lilo prompt, I choose my new kernel, I see the kernel decompression
> message, then I see a message saying the kernel is loaded OK.  But this
> is the last message I see.  System just seems to hang there.
> 
> can anyone think of something I may have missed?

 Wrong cpu type in kernel config. 
 
> ps - I have an ide system.

 ps - is this the right forum ? :)