Booting with different kernels -- what am I missing?

[Janina Sajka]

You don't say that you compiled this new kernel. Did you? Or did you
just try to run a binary you found somewhere? It's generally not a good
idea, as others have said, to mix and match very much, because you may
not get something that works.

In any case, the actual reason for the failure is likely just above the
kernel oops message. And, isn't Speakup wonderful that you can still
read your screen after the computer has crashed? Try that with some
other OS.


Debee Norling writes:
> From: Debee Norling <NorlingDeborah at fhda.edu>
> 
> 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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