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Re: kernel compile help
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:33:01PM +0800, ZHAO Wei wrote:
> 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)
Try adding init=/bin/bash as kernel argument on bootloader command
prompt. But since older kernel can load init...
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