I downloaded the 2.6.22.2 kernel from www.kernel.org and tried to install it on my system (old kernel is 2.6.12) following the guide on http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_suse, but after when it's done, I got the following messages when my computer restarts. ********************************************************** TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1310702 bind 65536) TCP reno registered Checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 2342k freed apm: BIOS not found audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1187003001.692.1): initialized highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0 VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1 Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes) io scheduler noop regitered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 1875k, total 16384k vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=16 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:a026 vesafb: pmi:set display start=c00ca0b0, set palette=c00ca16e vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 Console: switching to color frame buffer device 100x37 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device isapnp: Scanning for pnp cards.. isapnp: no pnp device found Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac Serial: 8250/16550 driver $ Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled 00:09: ttys0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq=4) is a 16550A Floppy device(s): fd0 is 1.44M Clocksource tsc unstable (delta=5993995 1181 ns) ********************************************************** After the message, the system seems hang up. Can you please tell me what is wrong with my system? My hardware configuration: Dell notebook D631 (XPress 1270 chipset)
Did you create a ramdisk of your new kernel? What's in /boot/grub/menu.lst? Did you use the configuration of the old working kernel to compile the new one?
Here is content of my menu.lst file: # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on 一 8月 13 08:07:02 CST 2007 color white/blue black/light-gray default 2 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x314 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent showopts initrd /boot/initrd title SuSE Test root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.2--smp root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x314 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent showopts initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.22.2--smp ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows chainloader (hd0,1)+1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda6 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3 I did load the old config file that worked with my old kernel file before I compiled the new kernel: config-2.6.16.21-0.8-smp But I am not sure if the old config file is loaded successfully. No errors or warnings pop up.
I've got another question: I also tried to patch my old kernel 2.6.16 using file patch-2.6.22 patch -p1 < patch-2.6.22 But nothing changed after the patch was installed. Why? Is it possible to upgrade kernel in this way?
It seems to be the problem of the new kernel I tried to install the OpenSuSE 10.3 Beta (Kernel version 2.6.22.1) on my notebook yesterday, and I met the following problems: A. The installation process is quite slow. It spend over 10 min (probably much longer) to detect and active hardwares. B. The hard disk is not found. Then I tried to boot SuSE10 w/ the newly installed kernel 2.6.22.2, which is from www.kernel.org, and I found that after 10 (or 20? or even longer) min, the system reports the following messages: PS: SuSE10 is installed in the partition sda5 I wonder if anybody has met this problem when using kernel 2.6.22. The hardware configuration of my notebook: CPU: AMD 64 X2 TL-56 Chipset: AMD XPress 1270 Hard drive: Toshiba SATA 60G
