On Fri, 2001-09-14 at 14:28, Nicholas Avenell wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 20:20:09 +0200, in linux.debian.user you wrote: > > >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. > > Scsi support was one of the main reasons I decided to get a new kernel. > Also for the USB Filesystem and other neatocool things,
What arguments are you passing to the kernel at boot time? > > > >> > >> 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. > *snip* > > > >Can you reboot with the old kernel or is the new hardware blocking any > >successfull boot? > > I can reboot fine with the old (2.2.17) kernel, and am doing so > Ok. That means it's a software issue in the new kernel at least. --mike
