> 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 tried Spider's suggestion of using the /proc/config from the gentoo boot cd and I still had the problem. I'm wondering if when I thought I had booted using the live cd's kernel if I actually just had the CD in there and spaced out. Who knows. Anyway, I installed slackware 9.0 (my previous love, before I tried gentoo) and compiled a kernel there, and it worked. So I figured I'd save the config file and try it with gentoo again. Well, this time it worked. The only thing I consciously did differently was I left a few more little options I wasn't sure if I needed in, and I took out framebuffers. One day, maybe when I upgrade the gcc on my other machine so I can use distcc, I'll try enabling framebuffers to see if that was really the problem. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. -- Zachary P. Landau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG: gpg --recv-key 0x24E5AD99 | http://kapheine.hypa.net/kapheine.asc
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