New Kernel Hangs on Init: Version 2.84 Booting
Hello world.
For the record this is my first post.
I've successfully downloaded and installed Debian Woody, yeah! However
after installation I needed to rebuild the kernel to support my sound
card (Soundblaster Live! 5.1). I also have a 200 gb IDE HDD and read
that I needed to use the 2.4 kernel to support the lba48 addressing that
the drive needs to use. At the moment the drive only shows up as 137gb.
So I used apt-get to retrieve the kernel sources from debian's ftp
servers (kernel-source-2.4.24) and I followed some instructions
(http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html) to get
everything running.
I spent 4 hours reading all the help information in xconfig and trying
to make sense out of it. I picked what seemed like the right choices (I
know, I'm a newbie) and rebuilt. Then I installed the kernel and
rebooted. As the system came up it hung on
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Init: Version 2.84 Booting
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I did a bunch of googling and I saw that one solution would be to copy
the config that I was using (for the default Debian Woody kernel
2.2.20-idepci) and run
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make oldconfig
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in the /usr/src/linux directory. It asked me a bunch of questions to
which I answered the default choices. I removed my first,
non-functional kernel and then rebuilt and installed the new kernel
based on the default config. I rebooted, and this time saw
.............
cram_fs: wrong magic
Init: Version 2.84 Booting
.............
and it hung again. I tried again and made sure to include IDE support
built straight into the kernel. More of the same. I'm sure I'm missing
something fairly simple which is why, despite 3 days of searching, I
can't find much help. So I reach out to the world for help...
I'd be more than glad to post any config files that you all would need
to help me through this. I'm a newb so go easy on me. And thank you.
Peace
-=Damian=-
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