problems booting 2.5 kernel, rh9

problems booting 2.5 kernel, rh9

[Dave Mehler]

Hello,
    Compiled/installed a 2.5 kernel on my rh9 box, everything went alright.
When i try to boot it this is what i get, any ideas? I don't see an error,
very weird. I've installed the new modutils rpm and the procpsutils as well.
Thanks.
Dave.


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    GRUB  version 0.93  (639K lower / 261040K upper memory)

 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
      Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
      Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the
      commands before booting, 'a' to modify the kernel arguments
  Booting 'Red Hat Linux (2.5.67)'

root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.5.67 ro root=LABEL=/1 console=ttyS0
   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0xe1aaf]
initrd /boot/initrd-2.5.67.img
   [Linux-initrd @ 0xffc7000, 0x14ffb bytes]

Re: problems booting 2.5 kernel, rh9

[Antonio Vargas]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:01:27PM -0400, Dave Mehler wrote:
> Hello,
>     Compiled/installed a 2.5 kernel on my rh9 box, everything went alright.
> When i try to boot it this is what i get, any ideas? I don't see an error,
> very weird. I've installed the new modutils rpm and the procpsutils as well.
> Thanks.
> Dave.
> 
> 
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>     GRUB  version 0.93  (639K lower / 261040K upper memory)
> 
>  +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>       Use the ^ and v keys to select which entry is highlighted.
>       Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the
>       commands before booting, 'a' to modify the kernel arguments
>   Booting 'Red Hat Linux (2.5.67)'
> 
> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.5.67 ro root=LABEL=/1 console=ttyS0
>    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0xe1aaf]
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.5.67.img
>    [Linux-initrd @ 0xffc7000, 0x14ffb bytes]

Dave, since your ISP is blocking my mail, I reply on lkml...

I booted fine the 2.5 kernel by tagging it for netboot and
then placing it on my tftp directory. I never use harddisk
bootloaders, so if you can not make it work with grub,
I would get ahead and make it boot from floppy. Yes, it
takes a minute to load a kernel, but it works and is simple.

I use syslinux for that, it's fairly simple and you can
enter kernel options directly at the boot prompt.

Also, since it's a dos 8.3-formatted floppy, you can upgrade
your kernel by simply replacing the kernel file.

If you need a dos-formatted empty disk, I can post one to my
homepage for you to download.

Greets, Antonio.

ps. I'm having problems with running "make menuconfig" on rh9
    under vanilla 2.5.66, the gnome-terminal hangs easily...
    any ideas? (Yes, I'll try xterm or rxvt just in case).

Re: problems booting 2.5 kernel, rh9

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <20030417111714.GA16335@wind.cocodriloo.com>
By author:    Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Dave, since your ISP is blocking my mail, I reply on lkml...
> 
> I booted fine the 2.5 kernel by tagging it for netboot and
> then placing it on my tftp directory. I never use harddisk
> bootloaders, so if you can not make it work with grub,
> I would get ahead and make it boot from floppy. Yes, it
> takes a minute to load a kernel, but it works and is simple.
> 
> I use syslinux for that, it's fairly simple and you can
> enter kernel options directly at the boot prompt.
> 
> Also, since it's a dos 8.3-formatted floppy, you can upgrade
> your kernel by simply replacing the kernel file.
> 
> If you need a dos-formatted empty disk, I can post one to my
> homepage for you to download.
> 

Especially on recent 2.5, you can just "make bzdisk" and have it make
a syslinux floppy.  make bzdisk FDARGS='blah' lets you set the default
options right on the fly.  You need syslinux 2.02 or later (and, of
course, write permission to the floppy drive) if you want to do this
as non-root.

	-hpa

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