Hi, I still haven't given up yet to compile my own kernel, but I am nearly there. Meanhwile I removed the kernel and the kernel source packages and installed them again. But even from the scratch without changing anything I get a kernel panic from my compiled kernel. Aren't the default settings being supposed to be the same as the standard kernel shipped? The standard kernel is working though.
Problem is it doesn't support acpi out of the box and afaik I need acpi if I don't want to burn the processor on this particular machine (as described on linux-laptop.org). For the record .. I am using woody on a sony vaio grx316g. Btw. I also bought a null modem cabel to get the console messages from the kernel before the panic, but unfortunately I found out that my laptop has three usb, and firewire and ..., but not a serial port :-( Are there any other ways to see the kernel messages? I believe that the file system is not mounted at that point in time and probably because of that I don't see any relevant messages below /var/log. Cheers, Mariano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]