Peter B. Steiger wrote: > Wasn't sure if this is an LFS or BLFS question since it deals with an > upgrade of an established system rather than a question from the book... > but anyhow, here's the deal: > > I have been running LFS for about 4 years now with a fresh rebuild > whenever I get new hardware - the last full install was 20060619. I > upgrade the kernel whenever I think of it, usually every 4-6 months, and > today I went from 2.6.19-1 to 2.6.20. > > For whatever reason, /sbin/init locks up after finishing rc.sysinit and > before starting rc level-specific scripts. Reboot into 2.6.19-1, and > all is well. Nothing else changed except the kernel, and the kernel > config did not change - I copied .config straight over from the 2.6.19 > source tree into 2.6.20.
You did run 'make oldconfig' to update the .config file, didn't you? There are a few new things in 20. It's got to be a kernel problem if you can regress to 19 OK. I've had things like this before and it always been a broken kernel. Other idea: You patched 19 to get 20 and the patches failed. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
