On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:15:13AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > 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. > > Ah, I forgot about the hints file and that it is required > for console. Thanks for pointing that out. > > > If you compiled them into your kernel you might have had > > better luck, but it's still not supported. > > Well, I didn't compile anything. I just took the install > kernel from the BETA1 distributiin (which is compiled from > GENERIC, I assume).
Right, by default the hints are not compiled in. Anyway, there are other issues, like the 4.x loader will try to load /kernel instead of /boot/kernel/kernel, and maybe others. Just use the 6.1 loader instead :) Kris
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