Re: Newly compiled kernel will not boot

[Howard Baker <howard.baker@clara.co.uk>]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:29:13AM -0500, Radar wrote:
> I'm trying to boot a newly compiled 2.4.6 kernel in "potato" using the updated
> packages at people.debian.org/~bunk. After following steps outlined in a few
> kernel compile tutorials, I arrive at the same results, LILO says: uncompressing the image. Ok...booting the kernel - and nothing. It just hangs there. Prior to this, I had a newly installed woody system, thinking I would not need the 
> "Bunk" files. I used the kernel-package steps with the above results. Then I 
> wiped out the linux directory and started new without using the kernel-package
> steps. I can't think of why this is, when I compiled with no errors. I'll list 
> what steps I have taken thus far with the present setup.
> 
> Installed Debian 2.2 r3 from CDs and pointed sources.list to the "Bunk" files
> at people.debian.org.
> 
> Did an apt-get update and apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> 
> Installed libncurses5-dev, got the 2.4.6.tar.gz and untarred it in /usr/src/
> 
> cd into usr/src/linux and issued: make mrproper, make menuconfig.
> 
> For my p166, I chose pentium pro / Pentium II. For my hard drive I chose 
> enhanced IDE/ATA/MFM?/RLL (not sure about this). For filesystems, I used defaultsfor cdrom, ext2. I chose all netfiltering/iptables options, and chose my nic to
> be loaded as a module. PPP, floppy support etc.  I'm really not sure what's 
> amiss in here.
> 
> I saved the config, Issued make dep, make clean, make bzImage, make modules,
> make modules_install.
> 
> I copied the System.map into /boot/ along with the bzImage from /usr/src/linux
> /arch/i386/boot/. I also copied vmlinux into /boot/ (not sure about that)
> 
> I updated lilo.conf:
> 
> Image=/boot/bzImage
> 	root=/dev/hda2
> 	label=Linux
> 	read-only
> #	restricted
> 	alias=1
> 
> Image=/vmlinuz
> 	label=LinuxOLD
> 	read-only
> #	restricted
> 	alias=2
> 
> Everything else in lilo.conf was left as it was (except for the boot message)
> 
> I can still boot the old kernel, the new one will always stop at ....ok booting
> kernel - with no error messages.

Here's my lilo.conf which works for 2.4.5.  Hope this is of some help:-

boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hdc3
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
lba32
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5-686
	root=/dev/hdc3
	label=Debian2.4
	initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.5-686

Good luck.

-- 
Howard Baker
howard.baker@clara.co.uk