I didn't update the kernel while the newer processor was there. I thought maybe the system set itself to use i686 mode or something, but I don't really know.
>Did you update the kernel, after putting in the Athlon?
>
>You might have an Athlon specific kernel installed, which won't boot for a
>K6 or anything but an Athlon/Duron.
>
>On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Keith Wait wrote:
>
> >
> > I've run into a huge stumbling block with Linux. It's a very sad story,
> > I think.
> >
> > Here's what happened:
> >
> > Had old motherboard with AMD K62-400 processor, installed rh7.1 a year
> > ago june, I never had any significant problem making it boot or
> > anything. Well, being greedy, I decided to buy a new motherboard and a
> > Duron-1200 processor. Slapped that in, linux started up just fine,
> > didn't have any problems. Well, a few weeks later, the power went out
> > and I experienced processor failure for one reason or another. After I
> > replaced the old motherboard/processor, I find that linux will *no longer
> > start correctly*
> >
> > The kernel begins booting, but it freezes after the line which reads:
> >
> > "Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed" (system still responds to
> > ctrl-alt-del)
> >
> > oh, that's using the 2.4.9-34 kernel. I try my backup kernel (2.4.9-2x,
> > i don't remember exactly the number), and it does the exact same thing.
> >
> > Then I try the boot disk that I made during installation of linux. It
> > gives me the above message, then immediately after, gives me this
> > message:
> >
> > "Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:06" (no response
> > to ctrl-alt-del)
> >
> > Well, I become desperate. I pop the red hat cd in, and boot from it into
> > rescue mode. It gets into a shell, and mounts what should be my root
> > partition (/dev/hda5) on /mnt/sysimage, like it's supposed to. Now, as
> > far as I can tell, everything that was in there is still in there.
> > Everything in my user directory is intact, and I don't notice anything
> > missing from any of the other directories. So I try "chroot
> > /mnt/sysimage". The system spits out:
> >
> > "Illegal instruction"
> >
> > Oh, I'm dual booting with win98, and it starts up just fine and dandy,
> > which is how i'm writing this. Any suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> > -keith
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