Re: 2.4.9 won't boot

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:02:52PM -0700, bedlam@alumni.rice.edu wrote:
| I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the
| official image from debian.org.  I have it running w/ kernel
| 2.2.19pre17, however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and
| I've been unsuccessful in compiling their source code.  I've been
| trying to compile and use the 2.4.8 kernel because 2.4 should have
| National Semiconductor chipset support (and hence my netgear card) but
| when I try to boot I get nothing.  The screen says:
| 
| LILO Linux Loader blahblah............
| Uncompressing the kernel... Ok, booting the kernel.
| 
| And then it hangs.  Doesn't go blank, just sits there w/ a blinking

What does your lilo configuration look like?  Did you pass the
"--initrd" option to make-kpkg?  The kernel-image-2.4.8 package in sid
is built with an initrd so it must be booted that way.  In my grub
config I have :

    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.8 root=/dev/hda1 apm=on read-only
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.8

I've done a bit of experimenting here and I found that if the kernel
was built with initrd stuff, then it requires booting with an initrd.
If it was built without the initrd stuff then it requires booting
without any initrd stuff.

HTH,
-D