Re: installing new kernel crashed X - Solved

[Micha Feigin <michf@math.tau.ac.il>]

 Sun, 1 Aug 1999, Stephan Hachinger wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Micha Feigin <michf@math.tau.ac.il>
> To: Debian-user <Debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 6:34 PM
> Subject: installing new kernel crashed X - Help
> 
> 
> > I tried to compile an install kernel 2.2.10 on a 486dx2.
> > It compiled correctly, but when I tried to install it it wouldn't start
> > (halted with a message that it was trying to open some module and couldn't
> > find it, and then that it couldn't mount root file system on 03:01.)
> > I rebooted with the old kernel (a localy compile 2.2.5).
> > I then tried to recompile 2.2.10, reinstalled it, but it still didn't
> > work(same error).
> > When i went back to the old kernel again and login into x, when i tried to
> > log as a normal user, the screen would go blank and then throw me back to
> > the login prompt (kdm). It did let me login as root.
> > On the text consoles (not x11) i can log in as a normal user.
> > What did I kill?
> > All i changed was the kernels and lilo (at list as far as i know).
> > If it helps, the compilation over filled my hard disk (it showed 0 space
> > before starting the compilation)
> > The second, the one that crashed the system, I didn't clean the kernel
> > source before rebooting.
> > Thanx
> > michf@math.tau.ac.il
> >
> >
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> 
> Dear Micha Feigin,
> 
> I've had the X11 Problem, too. Possibly, you forgot to include some network
> drivers/ protocols needed by X11 (TCP/IP etc. I think) in the kernel. I just
> tried different protocols until it ran.
> 
> If it can't mount the root fs, you forgot to include a driver for that fs in
> the kernel, I suppose.
> 
> By the way, why are you willing to switch to 2.2.10???
> 
> You should clean up your hard disk-did it cause any errors when compiling
> the kernel?
> 
> 
> 
> Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger.
> 

Well, If anyone interested the problem was solved:
Don't reboot with an over full disk (over 100% probably swaped?)
It drives the comp crazy. It also spoiled my configurations (only personal
ones, and selectivly).

Also, for old Computers running only two ide disks on a controler, the
kernel needs the ide 2 disk module (Don't remember the name) and compiled
into the kernel, not as a module.

And the new kernel (2.2.10) for some reson, on my computer (Its a 486dx2),
maybe because it's old the newer kernels seem to be more stable.