On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 04:00:53PM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Hi, > > I tried loading a 6.1-BETA1 kernel (the default GENERIC > kernel from the BETA1 distribution) on a system with > the /boot directory (including /boot/loader) from a 4.x > installation. To be exact, it's 4.9-RELEASE. > > It didn't work. The kernel didn't even print the copyright > line or anything else, it just hung. Is that expected > behaviour?
Yes, I think so. One problem is that the hints will be missing, so you won't get a console. If you compiled them into your kernel you might have had better luck, but it's still not supported. Kris
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