On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:33:01PM +0800, ZHAO Wei wrote: > Harsha Vardhana Rao Alapati wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a prob in compiling kernel. I have RH 8.0 with 2.4.18-14. I want > > to use 2.4.20 and I got it downloaded and compiled sucesfully. When Iam > > trying to boot the new kernel, the booting hanges after > > > > "VFS: mounted the root file system(EXT3)" > > "Freeing the unused kernel memory: 130K" > > > > and hanged from there.....I dont knoe what mistake I did. > > Please help me, > > I've seen this before. If I remember correctly, the kernel is O.K. > but your /sbin/init is in trouble. Basically, the kernel can't fire > up /sbin/init, so it hangs there. > > Hope my memory didn't screwed up. 8) Try adding init=/bin/bash as kernel argument on bootloader command prompt. But since older kernel can load init... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz> -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
