Re: rh9 and 2.5 kernel difficulties

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 19:17, Dave Mehler wrote:
> Hello,
>     I've successfully compiled/installed a 2.5.67 kernel on rh9, and the
> modules. The problem is when i boot it grub just hangs, i'm assuming i've
> compiled everything right, i've read about the keyboard/mouse/monitor
> issues, but then i got a reference to something to do with modules and
> compatibility with 2.4, I did not however find this and i'm wondering if
> that is my problem. Can anyone give me a pointer to all that i need for
> this? My system has an A7A266 motherboard, and i'm getting an error about
> i8253 count too high! error message and it was suggested that a 2.5 kernel
> would resolve this.

Well, I assume that when you say "it hangs" you mean "it displays,
Uncompressing linux kernel... OK, booting" and then it stays there
forever.

Have you tried with the latest BitKeeper (-bk) snapshot available from
http://www.kernel.org? Also, try disabling ACPI and APIC to see if it
helps.

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