2009/2/21 Dennis Busboom <dcbn...@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 -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org