On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 01:39:54PM -0800, Scott A. Henderson wrote: > I have have a problem with booting the kernel 2.4.25 and later on recent > hardware I purchased > > The initial installation is a basic bf24 install no options were > selected, I just followed the menus through the system. I do have ext3 fs. > > My application requires me to compile device drivers so I need to > recompile the kernel. I recompiled the kernel with 2.4.18 kernel-source > package install the package rebooted and all was well. I then updated > to 2.4.25 kernel-source and compiled the deb package and installed with > the following. > > The system will not reboot, it seems to get confused at the step where > the ide is detected and the fs type is determined. I get a number of > messages about Rieser fs at this point that don't make any sense at > all. I have an ext3 fs no reiser. > > The kernel configuration that I am using is /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4 > copied to the source directory as .config. > > So at this point I can boot 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 compiled kernels but > nothing later than this in the 2.4.x code.
I have one PC that also won't boot 2.4.25 or 2.4.26 kernels. For me the boot hangs on mounting the root filesystem, which happens to be ext3. I also tried installing 2.6.5 and 2.6.6; same problem. My solution was to recompile the kernel with ide and ext3 support compiled in and to remove support for initrd. No problem booting after that. -- Jerome
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