[TriLUG] New 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kernel Won't Boot

[Jason Tower]

did you actaully run 'lilo -v' to reload it on the MBR?  with grub that
step isn't necessary but with lilo it is.  if not you can probably boot a
knoppix cd, chroot into the original / partition, mount /boot, and run
lilo that way, i've done it before.  good luck.

jason

> Hey TriLUG,
>
> I recently upgraded to mandrake Community 10.1 on my (ancient) Dell
> laptop... To get my ACX-100 based wireless card working, I had to
> recompile the kernel, which I've doon before... but this time, after
> configuring the kernel, doing a 'make', 'make modules','make
> modules_install' and a 'make bzImage', something went wrong. I
> installed the new image in /boot and added it to LILO, rebooted, and I
> got:
>
> Decompressing vmlinuz.............
> BIOS Data Check Successful.
>
> And then my machine rebooted. Finding this Odd, I changed my
> configuration and recompiled. No dice.
>
> On a hunch, I cd'ed to /usr/src/linux and tried to execute
> './vmlinux'... just to see what would happen.
>
> It segfaulted! Is this normal???
>
> I then ran gdb on my new kernel... when I told GDB to run, I got:
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0xc010000000 in startup_32()
>
> That's the whole backtrace. 0xc010000000 in startup_32(). It segfaults
> the moment it loads! Which leads me to believe that's what happened
> when I tried to boot my new kernel.
>
> So, now I'm stuck and don't know what I did wrong. Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks Guys!
>
> -Josh
>
> -----------
> Due to the recent increase in spam and falsely sent email, I now PGP
> Sign all of my outgoing mail to prove my identity. This means that you
> will see an attachment called "PGP.sig" with this message. This
> attachment can be used to prove that I am who I say I am. If you are
> not familiar with PGP, you can safely ignore it. For more information,
> please visit http://www.pgp.com/ or http://www.gnupg.org/
>
>
>
> --
> TriLUG mailing list        : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> TriLUG Organizational FAQ  : http://trilug.org/faq/
> TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
> TriLUG PGP Keyring         : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc