Adrian Levi wrote: > 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 >
Just a thought, I hope there is no change in naming the various disk partitions (devices). -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
