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Re: kernel not booting



on Sun, Mar 31, 2002, Scott Henson (shenson2@wvu.edu) wrote:
> I just compiled a new 2.4.19-pre4-ac3 kernel.  Now I have been
> compiling kernels for quite a long time, and Im not sure why its not
> booting.  It gets all the way to where it displays "Init version 2.84"
> or something to that affect, then it hard locks and wont respond to
> any input.  I know this is too early in the boot process to expect the
> system to be able to do much, but it doesnt even print out an error
> message.  I am using Debian GNU/Linux 3.0(woody) with a bunch of sid
> packages as well.  I used the kernel packager and I didnt see any
> errors durring the compilation.  Anyone have any ideas?   

Have you tried booting single-user mode?

Can you boot an alternate kernel?

Peace.

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