Did you update the kernel, after putting in the Athlon? You might have an Athlon specific kernel installed, which won't boot for a K6 or anything but an Athlon/Duron.
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Keith Wait wrote: > > I've run into a huge stumbling block with Linux. It's a very sad story, > I think. > > Here's what happened: > > Had old motherboard with AMD K62-400 processor, installed rh7.1 a year > ago june, I never had any significant problem making it boot or > anything. Well, being greedy, I decided to buy a new motherboard and a > Duron-1200 processor. Slapped that in, linux started up just fine, > didn't have any problems. Well, a few weeks later, the power went out > and I experienced processor failure for one reason or another. After I > replaced the old motherboard/processor, I find that linux will *no longer > start correctly* > > The kernel begins booting, but it freezes after the line which reads: > > "Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed" (system still responds to > ctrl-alt-del) > > oh, that's using the 2.4.9-34 kernel. I try my backup kernel (2.4.9-2x, > i don't remember exactly the number), and it does the exact same thing. > > Then I try the boot disk that I made during installation of linux. It > gives me the above message, then immediately after, gives me this > message: > > "Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:06" (no response > to ctrl-alt-del) > > Well, I become desperate. I pop the red hat cd in, and boot from it into > rescue mode. It gets into a shell, and mounts what should be my root > partition (/dev/hda5) on /mnt/sysimage, like it's supposed to. Now, as > far as I can tell, everything that was in there is still in there. > Everything in my user directory is intact, and I don't notice anything > missing from any of the other directories. So I try "chroot > /mnt/sysimage". The system spits out: > > "Illegal instruction" > > Oh, I'm dual booting with win98, and it starts up just fine and dandy, > which is how i'm writing this. Any suggestions are appreciated. > > -keith > > > ________________________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: Click Here > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list > _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
