Hi folks, maybe someone out there who has been in this situation can help me out. Here's the story:
I had a bad case of CPU meltdown which apparently also damaged my motherboard. It was an Athlon system running RedHat 7.2, with the stock RedHat "athlon" kernel RPM. I've ordered a new mb and CPU combo (identical to what I had before) but in the meantime I have an older K6-2 CPU and motherboard that I thought I would try to swap in instead. The system wouldn't boot with the athlon kernel so I used the RedHat cd in rescue mode and copied an i386 kernel (vmlinuz) and initrd to /boot and pointed GRUB to them on startup. Now the system does start to boot, the kernel is loaded into memory, and I get a bunch of hardware detection messages. However, it hangs after displaying, "Freeing unused kernel memory" which is the message it normally shows right before init is started. I edited rc.sysinit to echo something at the top of the file so I know it's not reaching that point. My question is, what reasons would init hang and what might I do to try to fix it? Thanks, Scott ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
