[plug] Question about the boot process.

[Sham Chukoury]

Dion wrote:
> Hi I have a question for the clever Pluggers out there.  I am wondering 
> about what is happening at each point in the boot process relative to 
> screen output.
> I have been fiddling with compiling a 2.5.62 kernel under Debian 3.0  
> once complete and the lilo has been updated, I try to boot the kernel.
> It begins booting with screen output
> 
> Loading Linux 2.5.61........................
> 
> and goes no further than that.  At this point is the Kernel still being 
> copied to memory?? or unpacked?? I am trying to figure where to look for 
> the point of failure.

I had this problem once when I installed a new kernel (2.4.20)... I just 
overwrote the old (2.4.20) kernel and system map and rebooted without 
running lilo. I got the problem you describe above. So then I just 
rebooted into my old default kernel (2.4.18), ran lilo and when booting 
the 2.4.20 kernel again, it all worked fine.

(Yes well, it worked fine, except at the point where i typed "startx", 
but that's another story...)

So yea, remember to run lilo every time you put in a new kernel or 
replace an old one. :P
Hope this helps
§:)