Booting with different kernels -- what am I missing?

[Gregory Nowak]

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Can you tell us what the kernel panic was? I don't think you should be
mixing slack 8.1 distro with slack 9.1 kernel, and vice versa, due to
the differences in glibc between the 2 different distro versions. I
maybe wrong about that though, in which case it shouldn't make a
difference.

Greg


On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:17:21AM -0700, Debee Norling wrote:
> I have another booting problem but I think it is caused by my
> mis-understanding of something. Maybe some of you good explainers can make
> this clear for me.
> 
> I thought that the kernel was independent from the software running on a
> particular machine. I know that a person runs some distribution, then often
> downloads later kernel source, recompiles it and everything is fine.
> 
> I thought I'd start by doing something simpler. I simply tried to boot
> Slackware 8 with a speakup-enabled slackware 9 kernel, and later I tried to
> use a slackware 8 boot disk after I'd installed 9.1 on my hard disk. In both
> cases, I couldn't boot. I got a kernel panic (which speakup read fine.) Why?
> 
> --Debee
> 
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