On Tuesday March 21, 2006 5:15 pm, Ralph E. Kenyon, Jr. wrote: > Hi, > > ...better info.... > > I've been using RedHat 9 successfully for years on a 350 Mhz cpu, but the > Socket 7 mother board gave out. > I upgraded to a 2.93 Mhz athalon with a new box and motherboard. > It runs just fine on the 2.4.20-43.9.legacy i586 kernel, but the cpu is > now an i686, so I wanted to update. > I tried to update my kernel to the i686 version, but got a slew of errors, > so I waited until another update was available. > Next I installed the 2.4.20-46.9.legacy i686 kernel. > RPM -ivh reported that it was unable to erase /tmp/initrd.mnt.d9ahz0. > That directory appears to be empty. > > The i586 kernel works just fine, but the i686 kernel won't boot. > > The system halts with the following: > > Code: ff 50 10 eb d0 eb 0d 90 90 90 ... > <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! > <3>pc_keyb: Controller jammed (0x15). > > I've searched for the message, but found suggestions of hardware problems. > Since the system runs just fine on the i586 kernel I'm inclined to think > it's not hardware. > > Some claim Redhat 9 is just to old for new hot hardware, but that doesn't > explain why it runs just fine on the i586 kernel. > > Can anyone suggest what might be done to try to get a boot? Since you don't have an i686 (that's Intel) why not try the Athlon kernel and see if that helps. The kernel-2.4.20-46.9.legacy.athlon.rpm is available at fedoralegacy.org. -- Brian Ashe - CTO Dee-Web Software Services, LLC. http://www.dee-web.com/ -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
