I have a 1.2 GHz Athlon, which I am trying to upgrade from 2.6.15 from 2.6.14. I compiled both kernels by hand, using the Debian way (make-kpkg). With 2.6.14, it boots, however with 2.6.15, I get the initial portion of the boot messages, it boots Reiserfs read-only on / (/dev/hda2), frees console memory, then gives me the following message: unable to open an initial console After that, it displays a message about the real time clock driver and a couple of messages about serial 8250 being loaded. About 30 seconds later, I get a boot prompt...However, no additional filesystems (including /proc and /sys) get mounted, / remains mounted read-only, and no apps start (presumably because of the filesystem). I am using lvm2 on all filesystems except /. A little more on the kernel compile. I am using the deb for both. I did an apt-get install for 2.6.15, untarred the source, copied .config from 2.6.14 and did a make oldconfig. Gave a cursory look at the config, then did a make-kpkg [ clean > modules_clean > kernel_image > modules_image ]. I have shfs, nvidia-kernel, loop-aes and loop-aes-ciphers as modules, as with 2.6.14. Has anyone seen this before? Regards, -- --Brad ======================================================================== Bradley M. Alexander | IA Analyst, SysAdmin, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.org ======================================================================== Key fingerprints: DSA 0x54434E65: 37F6 BCA6 621D 920C E02E E3C8 73B2 C019 5443 4E65 RSA 0xC3BCBA91: 3F 0E 26 C1 90 14 AD 0A C8 9C F0 93 75 A0 01 34 ======================================================================== Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world. --Dave Barry
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