On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 06:09:44PM -0500, Jim Crumley wrote: > Is anyone regularly running a 2.5 kernel? Yes. > I am playing around with 2.5.69 to try to see if it will fix a > USB problem that I have been having. This is my first foray into > 2.5-land so I could be missing something obvious. Yes. > I configured the kernel based on updating the config for a > 2.4.21-rc2 .config and updating it from there. The kernel > compiles fine, but it hangs on boot. It gets as far as > "Uncompressing Linux .... Ok booting the kernel". > > Any ideas on what might be going on? I don't think that I left > anything crucial out of the config. I tried compiling with both > gcc-3.2 and gcc-2.95. Are there any tool chain gotchas that I may > be missing? The machine is running Debian Sarge. Yes. You are missing your keyboard and console - the input layer has been extensively reworked. Make sure you have ONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y CONFIG_VT=y CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y in your .config. Cheers, florin -- "NT is to UNIX what a doughnut is to a particle accelerator." -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030513/8ecc9e64/attachment.pgp