next up: trying to build/boot a 2.6.0-test[x] kernel

[Jack Bowling]

** Reply to message from "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> on Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:54:15 -0400 (EDT)

> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Milan Kerslager wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:57:45PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > 
> > >   based (loosely) on my 2.4 kernel config file, i've built both
> > > a 2.6.0-test1 and 2.6.0-test2 kernel, and tried to boot both of
> > > them.
> > 
> > Try http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/
> > 
> > Use precompiled or grab .config from kernel-source package and try to
> > modify this one (at lest to do not forget something).
> 
> that's my next attempt.  i was just wondering whether anyone had
> a wild guess as to what would cause the kernel boot to just seize
> after "Freeing unused kernel memory."

Did it to me when I had a couple of vfat Win98 partitions defined in fstab. As soon
as I commented them out, the boot could proceed.

jb