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Re: kernel compile help

Harsha Vardhana Rao Alapati wrote:
>  Hi,
>    I have a prob in compiling kernel. I have RH 8.0 with 2.4.18-14. I want to use 2.4.20 and I got it downloaded and compiled sucesfully. When Iam trying to boot the new kernel, the booting hanges after
> 
>   "VFS: mounted the root file system(EXT3)"
>   "Freeing the unused kernel memory: 130K"
> 
>   and hanged from there.....I dont knoe what mistake I did.
>   Please help me,

I've seen this before. If I remember correctly, the kernel is O.K. 
but your /sbin/init is in trouble. Basically, the kernel can't fire 
up /sbin/init, so it hangs there.

Hope my memory didn't screwed up. 8)

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