Hi guys, Well - i'm at a loss with this. I'm running Woody, kernel 2.4.18 (bf24) and it was all working ok. I needed to get my soundcard working (via82cxxx chipset - onboard sound). I had the modules compiled in the kernel for this. I did an apt-get install sndconfig and installed that to help setup sound. That didn't work as I needed to configure OSS into my kernel. So off I went to recompile and reconfigure my kernel.
Now I did a silly thing - after doing all the necessary stuff I just copied across the System.map and bzImage files to my /boot dir and renamed them to current kernel and .map files - overwriting them. I'm kicking myself for not being my usually careful self and backing original files up. Anyways - I rebooted system, chose the particular kernel I wanted to launch and it just hangs now at the following point. "loading linux-new........." It freezes my whole system and ctl alt del does not work to reboot PC. I have to manually force the system off. Now i've put a lot of effort into getting this working, and having done so i'm rather upset to have it suddenly break on me. Is there any reason why including the OSS module in the kernel would do this? Is there any way that I can possibly salvage this without having to recompile a kernel from scratch? I do have my original default kernel still in lilo etc and it is loadable. I tried rebooting system again, just in case it was a one off system crash, but same thing occurred. Is it possible that somehow during the recompile something went wrong? There were no error messages during any of the stages... I'm not sure what further information I can provide that might be useful - feel free to make suggestions and i'll do my best to provide any further information that already provided. Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]