kernel hangs on boot

roan · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 22

I have installed gentoo on a Fusitsu/Siemens RX200 with a
megaraid controller. The installation went fine but all kernels
I compile hangs after "Uncompressing kernel Ok now booting".
I first tried to compile it myself and then tried to use genkernel.
The result is always the same. I had a similar problem when
booting from the gentoo 2004.1 live cd with the smp kernel.
It worked with the 2.4 kernel though. The problem disappeard
on the 2004.2 live cd. I would very much appreciate an answer
since I should get the server up and running next week.

Is this likely to be caused by a problem with the scsi configuration
in the kernel or should the boot process have gone further than
hanging immediately if that was the problem?

Best regards
Robert Andersson

biznatch · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 4:32 pm Post subject:

Did you build megaraid into your Kernel as * and not M?
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roan · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 22

I compiled megaraid as *. I hava now managed to boot the
genkernel generated kernel if I give noapic as boot option and
not using the initrd image. Is this a bad sign? I didn't have to give
noapic to the gentoo live cd 2004.2 but it was nescessary for the
2004.1 cd (se above).

Best regards
Robert Andersson