"Giovanni Cambria" <gcambria@ar.ing.unisi.it> writes:

Hi NetPeople

I run Suse 5.3 with 2.0.36 Suse kernel. It works very fine with a Realtek 8029 lan card, an ASUS PCI-SC200 scsi card with CD-R, i740 video etc. etc. (Only a bug: Ensoniq AudioPCI doesn't work at all). It's OK X with kdm too, kppp and kmail.

A beatiful (?) day I downloaded from ftp.us.kernel.org the generic (non-Suse specific) linux-2.2.1.tar.gz Un-gzipped, untarred, made a conf file with 'make xconfig', compiled (gcc 2.7.2.1) and compiled modules too, when I boot again from DOS (at this moment I prefer loadlin instead of lilo) the system displays only (about):

'uncompressing linux ............ Ok now booting the kernel'

and hangs like a frozen armadillo

Is in the world (i.e. linux mailing list community) anyone who has an idea about?

Thanx

NanniX

There are several things: 1. you need a new version of loadlin (1.6a) 2. you compiled a kernel using the TSC feature of the newest versions of pentium types and your processor does not have a TSC (Time-Stamp Counter) 3. you are passing an "append" to the kernel which has changed for the new kernel. Take a look at <A HREF="http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/clue.html"><A HREF="http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/clue.html</A">http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/clue.html</A</A>> for more information on what might be going wrong. Hope this helps. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>