Dmesg garbage after kernel recompile

[Nagy Attila István <tylla_at_tylla.hu@localhost>]

Hi!

I have a fairly strange problem.

I recompile my kernel. The compile goes well, but after booting with the 
new kernel, all the kernel output (dmesg) displays garbage (like some 
pointers were wrong and the kernel tried to print some binary code).

First I met this problem some half year ago, but thought that it will 
heal himself (especially that those days it looked like some weird 
combination of kernel options lead to this behaviour - I was able to 
produce good kernels after a few reconfigure-recompiles).
But nowadays I am a little more desperate because I arrived at the 
stage, that I'm unable to compile a single kernel with good dmesg even 
after several attempts. (This is really painful on a new server, where 
it would be great to see how/whether the drivers found their devices).

I'm trying to compile from the 2.4 series (actually 2.4.27, but I tried 
some older ones too), with gcc-3.4 (some older versions were tried too 
like 3.3, 2.95) on sarge (kept regularly up-to-date).

I'm having a lot of other machines, some running woody, some sarge, but 
this problem comes to life only under sarge, woody compiles just right.

I hope that somebody else has encountered this problem too, and can give 
me a helping hand.

Thanks in advance
Bye
Tylla.