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DISCUSSION gilson r 3 participants 4 messages Jun 30, 2003 – Jul 1, 2003

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Hi!

Just as when I tried 2.5.64, I get now the same result with 2.5.72. When I reboot with the new kernel, I get:
"Booting 'Linux-2.5.72'
kernel (hd1,14)/vmlinuz-2.5.72 ro root=/dev/hdb2 hdc=ide-scsi
[Linux - bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0xdd72f]
initrd (hd1,14)/initrd-2.5.72.img
[Linux - initrd @ 0xf7cb000, 0x14d14 bytes] Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel."
And it hangs there, whether I compile with Mandrake-9.1 or RedHat-8. I'd love to learn what I'm doing wrong.
Kindly CC to me.

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Regards,
gilson
(in /usually/ sunny, balmy, Florida's Suncoast)
[this is an Intel-free, M$-free, virus-free computer.
Not by chance: powered by AMD-Duron running
MandrakeSoft-9.1/Linux-2.4.21, RedHat-8.0/Linux-2.4.18]
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On Monday 30 June 2003 22:55, gilson r wrote:

Hi Gilson,

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Just as when I tried 2.5.64, I get now the same result with 2.5.72.

Consider using .73 :)

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When I reboot with the new kernel, I get:

   "Booting 'Linux-2.5.72'
   kernel (hd1,14)/vmlinuz-2.5.72 ro root=/dev/hdb2 hdc=ide-scsi

[Linux - bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0xdd72f]
initrd (hd1,14)/initrd-2.5.72.img
[Linux - initrd @ 0xf7cb000, 0x14d14 bytes] Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel."
And it hangs there, whether I compile with Mandrake-9.1 or RedHat-8. I'd love to learn what I'm doing wrong.

Well, does it _really_ hang or are you able to ping that machine from another machine? Your error looks like the 8435989 times discussed misconfiguration ;)

CONFIG_INPUT=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y

Make sure you have the above set in your .config

Or, to speak in menuconfig language:

Input device support ->
[*] Input devices (needed for keyboard, mouse, ...)
Character devices ->
[*] Virtual terminal
[*] Support for console on virtual terminal

ciao, Marc

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Perhaps this option should just be set as default and don't even prompt the user for it during make config/menuconfig/xconfig. 99% of the people probably want this option and for those who don't probably have the smarts to just manually edit the .config and remove it.

Steve

Quoted 52 lines · Marc-Christian Petersen

On Monday 30 June 2003 22:55, gilson r wrote:

Hi Gilson,

Quoted 3 lines

Just as when I tried 2.5.64, I get now the same result with 2.5.72.

Consider using .73 :)

Quoted 11 lines

When I reboot with the new kernel, I get:
"Booting 'Linux-2.5.72'
kernel (hd1,14)/vmlinuz-2.5.72 ro root=/dev/hdb2 hdc=ide-scsi
[Linux - bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0xdd72f]
initrd (hd1,14)/initrd-2.5.72.img
[Linux - initrd @ 0xf7cb000, 0x14d14 bytes]
Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel."
And it hangs there, whether I compile with Mandrake-9.1 or RedHat-8. I'd love to learn what I'm doing wrong.

Well, does it _really_ hang or are you able to ping that machine from another machine? Your error looks like the 8435989 times discussed misconfiguration ;)

CONFIG_INPUT=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y

Make sure you have the above set in your .config

Or, to speak in menuconfig language:

Input device support ->
[*] Input devices (needed for keyboard, mouse, ...) Character devices ->
[*] Virtual terminal
[*] Support for console on virtual terminal

ciao, Marc

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On Monday 30 June 2003 23:34, [email protected] wrote:

Hi Steve,

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Perhaps this option should just be set as default and don't even prompt the user for it during make config/menuconfig/xconfig. 99% of the people probably want this option and for those who don't probably have the smarts to just manually edit the .config and remove it.

you are reading my mind :)

ciao, Marc