Re: 2.4.9 won't boot
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:02:52PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel 2.2.19pre17, however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and I've been unsuccessful in compiling their source code. I've been trying to compile and use the 2.4.8 kernel because 2.4 should have National Semiconductor chipset support (and hence my netgear card) but when I try to boot I get nothing. The screen says: LILO Linux Loader blahblah Uncompressing the kernel... Ok, booting the kernel. And then it hangs. Doesn't go blank, just sits there w/ a blinking cursor. A friend of mine, quite experienced w/ debian, has been helping me and he is stumped. I have read that older machines could have a problem w/ bzImage, but I thought the debian release was in bz format, and the CD kernel image runs correctly. Any help? I dont't if it is related to your problem but I observed that 2.4.7/2.4.8 have problems with older IDE disks (in my case disk in trouble is Quantum 500MB) while rest of my disks pool (seven differrent types) is OK. Kernel 2.4.8-ac4 cured my problem. Mirek
2.4.9 won't boot
I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel 2.2.19pre17, however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and I've been unsuccessful in compiling their source code. I've been trying to compile and use the 2.4.8 kernel because 2.4 should have National Semiconductor chipset support (and hence my netgear card) but when I try to boot I get nothing. The screen says: LILO Linux Loader blahblah Uncompressing the kernel... Ok, booting the kernel. And then it hangs. Doesn't go blank, just sits there w/ a blinking cursor. A friend of mine, quite experienced w/ debian, has been helping me and he is stumped. I have read that older machines could have a problem w/ bzImage, but I thought the debian release was in bz format, and the CD kernel image runs correctly. Any help? Thx Matt - Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html
Re: 2.4.9 won't boot
On 20 Aug 2001 12:02:52 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel 2.2.19pre17, however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and I've been unsuccessful in compiling their source code. I've been trying to compile and use the 2.4.8 kernel because 2.4 should have National Semiconductor chipset support (and hence my netgear card) but when I try to boot I get nothing. The screen says: LILO Linux Loader blahblah Uncompressing the kernel... Ok, booting the kernel. And then it hangs. Doesn't go blank, just sits there w/ a blinking cursor. A friend of mine, quite experienced w/ debian, has been helping me and he is stumped. I have read that older machines could have a problem w/ bzImage, but I thought the debian release was in bz format, and the CD kernel image runs correctly. Any help? Thx Matt It wasn't compiled with optimizations for a CPU of a later generation was it? --mike
Re: 2.4.9 won't boot
On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 12:02:52PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the | official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel | 2.2.19pre17, however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and | I've been unsuccessful in compiling their source code. I've been | trying to compile and use the 2.4.8 kernel because 2.4 should have | National Semiconductor chipset support (and hence my netgear card) but | when I try to boot I get nothing. The screen says: | | LILO Linux Loader blahblah | Uncompressing the kernel... Ok, booting the kernel. | | And then it hangs. Doesn't go blank, just sits there w/ a blinking What does your lilo configuration look like? Did you pass the --initrd option to make-kpkg? The kernel-image-2.4.8 package in sid is built with an initrd so it must be booted that way. In my grub config I have : root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.8 root=/dev/hda1 apm=on read-only initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.8 I've done a bit of experimenting here and I found that if the kernel was built with initrd stuff, then it requires booting with an initrd. If it was built without the initrd stuff then it requires booting without any initrd stuff. HTH, -D
Re: 2.4.9 won't boot
I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer... snip I've been trying to compile and use the 2.4.8 kernel... Did you make sure to check and/or change the CPU type spec'd ?? It defaults to a Pentium II and higher, I believe. This got me once... Also, don't try and use your .config file from your 2.2.x kernel. Hall
Re: 2.4.9 won't boot
On Monday 20 August 2001 8:02 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have recently installed Debian on an old Pentium computer using the official image from debian.org. I have it running w/ kernel 2.2.19pre17, however this does not support my Netgear fa311 NIC and I've been unsuccessful in compiling their source code. I've been trying to compile and use the 2.4.8 kernel because 2.4 should have National Semiconductor chipset support (and hence my netgear card) but when I try to boot I get nothing. The screen says: LILO Linux Loader blahblah Uncompressing the kernel... Ok, booting the kernel. And then it hangs. Doesn't go blank, just sits there w/ a blinking cursor. A friend of mine, quite experienced w/ debian, has been helping me and he is stumped. I have read that older machines could have a problem w/ bzImage, but I thought the debian release was in bz format, and the CD kernel image runs correctly. Any help? Thx Matt - Sign up for ICQmail at http://www.icq.com/icqmail/signup.html Have you upgraded binutils etc to the latest level. If you were running 2.2.19 you would not have needed to before. If you go to the Debian Installation Instructions page there is a link to a site which has all the bits you need to run 2.4.x, including some prebuild 2.4.x kernels packaged up as .deb files.
