Boot hangs, but boots from CD fine.

Manax

I've gotten through the install on my Toshiba laptop without difficulty, but my new kernel won't boot. I've rebuilt the kernel with various options, but have been unsuccessful getting past the "Ok, booting the kernel." message.

I've added additional debugging to the kernel, and it really looks like it is either not jumping to the decompressed kernel, or it is crashing immediately thereafter.

I wanted to grab the .config file for the stage1 kernel image, and compare the config options, but don't know where to find it.

Any thoughts?

barbar · Guru Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 397 Location: Austria

i had a similar problem for my first boot. I selected a wrong processor in menuconfig. I hope it is that easy to fix your problem,

Cossins · Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 6:29 pm Post subject:

Check your Console-options...
Remember to compile in VGA text console and eventually Video mode selection support. Also remember support for PTYs and the PTS filesystem.
I had this problem too, and I had misconfigured something like this in the kernel...

Good luck...

- Simon

Manax · Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 11:00 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, I have my processor set correctly (a P4, and tried P2, JIC), and I already had the video selection enabled (as well as tried it disabled).

I believe I'm not even getting far enough into the kernel load to display the video selection menu...

I probably should ask on the gentoo-dev mailing list for where to find the .config for the gentoo stage1 kernel... Although I'm still hoping someone here can point me in the right direction!

Cossins · Posted: Sat May 10, 2003 11:34 pm Post subject:

Does it sound like the kernel is actually booting (e.g. little noises from the harddisk) without updating the display or is it just plain frozen?

- Simon

Lasitus · Posted: Sun May 11, 2003 12:16 am Post subject:

Are you sure your file system and all that you need with that file system are checked?

DeathRow · n00b Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 29

I'm also getting this. I have rebooted many times, but then I emerged xfree and some other stuff and had to change the kernel and it doesn't work. I'm using Lilo and once i select to load gentoo it says "Loading Gentoo . . . . . . . . . . . " with exactly 11 dots every time.

-Peter

DeathRow · n00b Joined: 11 May 2003 Posts: 29

I just fixed my problem. If your using lilo, you have to do another /sbin/lilo after compiling the kernel with some options. This might apply to grub as well but i don't know.