System hang during boot after kernel upgrade

[Orion-X]

Hi, I am totally new to Linux so forgive me if I sound stupid...

Like the subject said, I followed the NHF and compiled the 2.4.2 kernel, although modules and modules_install didn't seem to do anything.

I copied System.map and bzImage to /boot, updated the lilo.conf, and ran /sbin/lilo, everything still seemed okay.

Then I rebooted,and the system hung when it reached "Partition check", right after my hd is detected and stuff.

I am wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that I am using only one HD, connected to the ATA100 controller, I had to do all that "ide2=... ide3=..." the first time when I installed RedHat, but this time I just appended that to the new kernel in lilo.conf anyway.

If it helps at all, my currently file system is 1 primary partition, which is housing WinME, 1 whole lot of logical partitions with Linux swap being hde5, and Linux ext2 being hde6. Oh and my system is Athlon, but I did that P3 ID bypass thing too. Oh and the reason it's hde I think it's because it's sitting on ATA100 controller.

Lastly, even though I don't think this is very important, but I have in fact my sound card and ATA100 controller sharing the same IRQ, but currently w/ the old kernel the sound card just refuses to work anyway, don't know if it's causing new problems w/ the new kernel.

The funny thing is that it hung during Partition check, and it looks like:

partition check: hde

I believe normally w/ the old kernel, my WDC hd info just shows up immediately after that w/o any delay. Don't know what's wrong now... did I mess up my kernel compile so know things don't work out? I left xconfig at default, didn't toggle anything (even though that made it so I couldn't create a RAM disk with the new compiled kernel, where do you turn on that option in xconfig anyway?).


thanks a whole lot for anyone who has already read through all this...


Orion-X

[hungarian]

look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes

to double check you have all that's required

I saw Linux hanging at boot time when it can not locate modules that are defined in

/etc/conf.modules

Any other idea guys ?

[Orion-X]

I did check Changes before compiling the new knernel. There was one thing which I was not able to upgrade, but then one of the NHF's recorded that he wasn't able to upgrade either so he just skipped it, and I did likewise.

But I don't think I am even reaching that module point of the bootup process. Like I said earlier, my system hang right after detection of "hde" and was "Checking partition hde" when it hanged.

I bet probably very few people have this weird problem, cuz I was searching for old posts and came up empty last night...

But any creative idea is cool tho, there's not much I can do at this point anyway...

Still, how come make modules didn't do anything? does default setting not incoporate any module into the kernel? Sorry this is completely stupid, I really don't know... :p

thx

[x]

Just a few guesses:
You say your soundcard and IDE-controller shares the same IRQ, this could cause the problem. Remove the soundcard (physically, that is!) and see if it helps.
Turn off "Plug-and-Play aware OS" in BIOS Setup.
Try booting with the old kernel (you did save it, I hope?)
And are you absolutely sure that you included everything you need, correct version & all that?
Not much help I'm afraid, but it seems to be a difficult problem, so I just tell you what I can!

[Orion-X]

I actually solved the problem earlier today... it was a very dumb mistake, I had an NTFS partition in my HD lying dorment (forgot it existed), so I never bothered to toggle the support for NTFS partition. And as a result, I guess the bootup just hanged when it got to partition check... =(

Thx a lot for the help tho...

I am still trying to get my usbmouse to work with the new kernel. It seems to work in console, but I don't know what to change the config in XFree86Config to make my mouse work in x windows.

What protocol do I have to use and what device?

thx,

Orion-X