Booting with different kernels -- what am I missing?

[Steve Holmes]

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I wonder what the line was just above the panic line? Often with a
kernel panic, you can still use the speakup review keys to read
appropriate lines on the screen.  

This bit with boot disks from different Slackware versions and such
brings to mind the possibility of missmatched versions of run time
libraries and loadable modules.  One has to be really careful when
changing core elements of any linux box.  One should always keep
together gcc, glibc and binutils from the same version of the distro
being used.  Example: Slackware 9.1 uses gcc version 23.2.3 I believe
and I don't remember the version of the libraries and binutils.  In
the case of the kernel, I wonder what was being used for loadable
modules.  They *MUST* be properly matched with the kernel.  Well, each
time modules are installed with 'make modules_install', they go into
/lib/modules/kernel/<version>/ so that matching should be ok.  We
really need to know what it paniced about to help further.

Did you compile this speakup kernel or did you copy it from some
place?

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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