Re: Lenny kernel (2.6.26) hangs
Adrian Levi wrote:
> 2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom <dcbnebr@yahoo.com>:
>> I just upgraded an older machine, PII 400mhz, 256mb RAM, from Etch to
>> Lenny. The upgrade went smoothly, but the new Lenny kernel hangs upon
>> booting. The old Etch kernel (2.6.18) is still present and boots up fine
>> into the Lenny upgrade. When booting from the 2.6.26 kernel, it never makes
>> it to the "Uncompressing Linux" stage, only appears to load the kernel and
>> the initrd, then just stops. Ctrl-Alt-Delete will reboot it, so it doesn't
>> lock hard, just goes into a coma. I've re-installed the kernel image and
>> have tried a few suggested boot parameters, (noapic, etc,etc) but there is
>> no change. Any idea of what might cause it to hang that early in the boot?
>
> Just to add, you could install one of the linux-image-686 or
> linux-image-2.6-686 meta packages.
>
> The first one depends on the most recent linux kernel, the second one
> depends on the most recent 2.6 kernel.
>
> Adrian
>
Just a thought, I hope there is no change in naming the various disk
partitions (devices).
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