Did you check the filesystem installed already and the file system selected for the newer kernel which you are interested to start. Iqbal On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 23:56, S P wrote: > Hi, > I have RH 8.0 with kernel version 2.4.18-14 installed. > I need to install another version of the kernel > 2.4.17. My machine has AMD Athlon processor. I have > tried all sorts of changes to the config file, but > every time when I boot up into 2.4.17 kernel, I get > kernel panic. "init" tries to access some illegal > memory location and the error message is "tried to > kill init". > > I have tried using the default config file of 2.4.18, > config file of 2.4.17 from another machine (with minor > changes in both) but nothing seems to be working. > > Does 2.4.17 have some known problem with Athlon ? I am > pretty sure that the problem is with the configuration > file, since no change has been made to the kernel. > > Thanks for any kind of help. > SP > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). > http://calendar.yahoo.com > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
