On Fri, 2001-09-14 at 07:58, Nicholas Avenell wrote: > Okay, I have two debian machines, Delirium and Sacrifice, networking > nicely, and running in a way that I find useful. > > Sacrifice has just received a gift of a new CD-R, and so I need to compile > a new kernel to support it.
Is this a scsi or ide cdr? If it's ide you're most likely going to get the ide-scsi emulation and the sg and scdrom drivers ready and then pass arguments to the kernel through lilo or what not to properly initialize the drive. > > I've compiled the newest kernel, 2.4.9 (Actually, I tried this for 2.4.6 snip > > However. > > Every time I boot into the new kernel, it gets as far as running the > autodetect on the IDE chain (Which it does sucessfully) and then says: > > invalid operand 0000 > > (Whole string of hex and other associated stuff, see below) > > Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill init. > > I'd quote you the entire message, but it doesn't seem to be logged anywhere > (The drives aren't mounted yet, I assume, so it isn't logging, but feel > free to prove me wrong). Can you reboot with the old kernel or is the new hardware blocking any successfull boot? --mike
