Re: Installing new kernel 2.6.17 on Ultra5
Hugh,
I'm not in a position to try at the moment. I seem to recall that the hd was perhaps still active but I wasn't able to ping the ip over the net.
Your idea about the frame buffer certainly has merit as I've not built that many kernels and its possible I omitted to include the correct one as I started from nothing - no oldconfig.
I'll try it again next week when I have time.
Thank you
John
On 9/15/06, H C Pumphrey <
H.C.Pumphrey@ed.ac.uk> wrote:John wrote:
> I have just compiled a new kernel for my Ultra5 using Debian's
> kernel-package system.
>
> BootP gets to the point of 'Booting into Linux...' and stops. No error
> message nothing, just halts where it is! If I change vmlinuz to point at
> the old kernel it works fine.
It may be the thing that bit me a week or two ago of the framebuffer not doing
the right thing. Does the HD contine to grind and whir once the screen freezes
at 'Booting into Linux...' ? If you wait a few minutes, can you log onto the
machine over the network from another machine? (Obviously this assumes you
have a network.)
This is a particularly likely thing to happen if your Ultra has two graphics
cards in (The U10s have a ATI one on the mobo, but often have a Sun Creator 3D
one in an expansion slot. 2.6 kernels may choose the opposite one to 2.4
kernels by default.) I guess it might also happen if you didn't build the
kernel with the appropriate framebuffer devices.
Hope this helps,
Hugh
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