Re: kernel compilation on sid

[Frédéric Dreier <frederic@dreier.cc>]

Eric Gaumer wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 23:36, Frédéric Dreier wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I re-installed my laptop (dell inspiron 8100) with the new installer 
> > (kernel 2.6).
> >
> > Then I apt-get the newer kernel source and compile it (make-kpkg 
> > --initrd kernel_image; dpkg -i kernel-image...). but it hangs randomly 
> > during the boot (sometimes at ide detection or when setting system 
> > clock,..).
> >
> >    
>
> Try booting with acpi=off. We have a bunch of Dell servers that hang at
> boot because of hwclock (hangs right after loading rtc driver). 
>
> We had to hack the hwclock rc script and pass --directisa to hwclock. 
>
> You could simply not use ACPI but we needed it to enable hyperthreading.
>
> I don't really know about the IDE detection stuff. Everything here is
> SCSI.
>
>  
I tried again with 'acpi=off' without success.
Then I made a 'make-kpkg clean; make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image' and now 
it boots and run stable.

I think I failed to understand something.. ;-)

Regards,

Frédéric