kernel hangs at boot time.

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi
   You wouldn't happened to have configured the DevFS filesystem into the
kernel, did you? Speakup and DevFS don't cooperate well together and, on my
system at least, cause the kernel to hang right after the loading kernel
message. If you did you'll need to remove it until speakup can coexist with
it, which will hopefully be sometime in the near future.
   If not, put your old configuration back into place and make whatever
changes you did make, one by one. Compile a new kernel after each change,
until you find the one that's giving you trouble. It's a long and boring
process, but it's really the best way to find out just what change caused
the system to hang.


On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 10:24:30PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> Hi guys. I decided to do a recompile of kernel 2.4.4.
> My problem is, when I try to boot the kernel, my machine seems to hang at
> the point where it says loading the kernel.
> is there a reason for this?