[SLUG] Rebuilt Fedora core hangs during boot

[Jan Newmarch]

Afer successfully installing Fedora Core 2 on a clean machine, I tried to 
build my own kernel as a prelude to customising it. I used the config file 
in /usr/src/linux-2.6.5/configs/kernel-2.6.5-i686.config, and made no 
changes except to set processor type to Pentium M (I have a Toshiba 
notebook). When I try to boot off this kernel, it dies very early:

Kernel panic: Atttempted to kill the idle task.
Code: 31 02 f4 40 31 02 00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00
Call trace
  sys_fill_super
  get_sb_single
  do_kern_mount
  sys_fill_super
  kern_mount
  sysfs_init
  mnt_init
  vfs_cache_init
  filp_ctor
  filp_dtor
  start_kernel
Machine is Toshiba Tecra 9000 laptop. On the default installed kernel, 
/proc/cpuinfo says
  processor       : 0
  vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
  cpu family      : 6
  model           : 9
  model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1400MHz

Any clues? I tried adding "idle=poll" to kernel params, but it made no 
difference.

Cheers
Jan
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