On Monday 29 April 2002 09:52, you wrote: > Hi All, > > Thank you for earlier answers you have given. Now I have one more. > > I tried to install 2.4.18 smp kernel from rpm. The installation went > well, and it updated also the yaboot.conf properly. When I then > restarted and tried to use smp kernel, the start up process froze. It > did showed two stars, so it found two processors. But it did not get > far enough to write anything into logs. The last messages on the > screen were: > Ramdisk Driver initilized. 16 Ramdisks of 4096 K size 1024 block size. > Uniform multi-platform E-IDE driver Revision 6.31. > IDE: Assuming 33 Mhz system bus speed for PIO modes: override with > ide bus = xx. > > Then nothing happens. I had similar symptoms in earlier version. At > that time I compiled kernel version 2.4.19 successfully without > ramdisk support. Can there be some problem related with ramdisks > because I could get that part compiled when I tried last time? Also I > could not get ramdisk and initrd support with 2.4.18 kernel. How can > I get more exact information wha happens, because the logs are not > used yet. > > Thank you for any information, > Arto
Take a look at your yaboot.conf file and make sure that there is an initrd= line in the section for that kernel. I had mine stop at that very point and the problem turned out to be the initrd= line in yaboot.conf got corrupted. Just a thought. sharon
