init won't start

prelude · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2002 Posts: 15

Hello

I have been fooling around with some old pc's to get gentoo working on them. So here is what I did to cut down on install time

I took the disk from a 486 machine, put it into a brand new and fast P4 1.7ghz and I installed gentoo. I offcourse made sure make.conf was configured to build i386. I test booted the system on the P4 and there was no problem at all.

NExt I put the disk back into the 486 and to my satisfaction the system started booting, until it hit the line "freeing unused kernel memory". I put the disk back into the P4 and noticed that after that init should start.

Sooo... I am guessing that it is a problem with init. I have tried this on two completely different setups and both results were the same. I installed gentoo on a Duall PIII 1ghz on a 1Gig SCSI disk wich I placed in a 486-25Mhz MCA machine, I compiled my kernel correctly since everything worked just fine, up until the herefore mentioned error, and I tried installing on a P4 1.7ghz on a 5gig IDE disk wich I put into a 486DX50 laptop.

Anyone any ideas?
Thnx

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

Did you go with a Gentoo sources kernel, or a vanilla kernel?
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prelude · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2002 Posts: 15

I went with the gentoo sources, should that make any difference then?
If so, could you tell me on wich systems the gentoo sources are not recommended?

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

I don't know that there is any hard data on what hardware has trouble with the gentoo-sources. I'd give the vanilla kernel a shot and see if that helps; it might not.
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prelude · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2002 Posts: 15

Hmm I will give it a try but I don't see how the kernel could be the cause of the porblem only that perhaps teh freeing of the kernel memory goes wrong.

I'll get back when I have had the chance to try.

delta407 · Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2002 10:06 pm Post subject:

The kernel hands control off to init, you see...
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