On Sunday 22 June 2003 12:30, Zachary P. Landau wrote: > I know this isn't exactly gentoo-specific, but I think it is closely > related enough to be warranted. > > When I booted up the gentoo install cd on my computer, it booted fine. I > installed everything, recompiled a new kernel, and rebooted. The boot > loader loads up, but as soon as it tries to load the kernel, the > computer reboots. Then I tried having grub use the install cd's kernel > but with my root filesystem, and that booted just fine. > > My question is, what type of kernel options could make the computer > reboot before anything at all is displayed? The only think I could > think of is the optimization settings (but I think that would just lock > it up) so I set those to 386 and it still happened. I would just try a > hit and miss type approach while playing around with options, but it is > a slower machine and takes a while to compile the kernel.
I don't know how sparingly you enabled things in the kernel, but I am guessing if you weren't sure on something, you turned it off. If this is the case, go through the kernel config again and enable anything you aren't 100% sure about. Also, make sure the kernel has proper support for your arch and you didn't specify having some other processor. -- Zack Gilburd http://tehunlose.com
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