From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:41:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:41:19 -0500 Received: from web13106.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.174.151]:6513 "HELO web13106.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 06:41:15 -0500 Message-ID: <20030110114959.60150.qmail@web13106.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:49:59 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Ole=20Jacob=20Hagen?= Subject: Unable to boot kernel-2.5.50 to kernel-2.5.55 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. This might be wrong mailinglist, but I don't know else to to. I am having a Dell Optiplex GX240, 512 MB RAM, ATI RAGE 128. I am using Gentoo GNU/Linux. I have installed module-init-tools-0.9.7. I have difficulties in booting development kernels. I am using GRUB as boot-loader, and can choose between different kernel-2.4 series and kernel-2.5. I am passing root=/dev/hda3 to all kernels. My screen turns black and the computer reboots, when I try to boot a development kernel. I havent't applied Rusty's patch for PCI and USB, because I thought it was for kernel-2.5.50. Is it necessary? I'm using pretty much the same config-file in kernel-2.5 as in kernel-2.4. I have tried to disable all framebuffer support, but nothing happened. Should I try another version of GRUB? How should the config-file for kernel-2.5.5x look like? I am trying out development kernels, because I like being in bleeding edge, when it comes to computers. Have to challenge myself...:-) Cheers, Ole J. ______________________________________________________ Få den nye Yahoo! Messenger på http://no.messenger.yahoo.com/ Nye ikoner og bakgrunner, webkamera med superkvalitet og dobbelt så morsom