On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 22:40:06 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote:
>On Fri, 2001-09-14 at 14:28, Nicholas Avenell wrote:
>>
>> Scsi support was one of the main reasons I decided to get a new kernel.
>> Also for the USB Filesystem and other neatocool things,
>
>What arguments are you passing to the kernel at boot time?
None at all, for either kernel
>> >
>> >>
>> >> I've compiled the newest kernel, 2.4.9 (Actually, I tried this for 2.4.6
>> >
>> >snip
>> >
>> >>
>> >> However.
>> >>
>> >> Every time I boot into the new kernel, it gets as far as running the
>> >> autodetect on the IDE chain (Which it does sucessfully) and then says:
>> >>
>> >> invalid operand 0000
>> >>
>> >> (Whole string of hex and other associated stuff, see below)
>> >>
>> >> Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init.
>> *snip*
>> >
>> >Can you reboot with the old kernel or is the new hardware blocking any
>> >successfull boot?
>>
>> I can reboot fine with the old (2.2.17) kernel, and am doing so
>>
>Ok. That means it's a software issue in the new kernel at least.
*nod* And the kernel compiles cleanly.
How likely is this to be something I've misselected in menuconfig? And
how would I find out what it is if I have?
Yours in total sincerity,
Nick Avenell
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