----- Original Message ----- From: Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-user <Debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Sunday, August 01, 1999 6:34 PM Subject: installing new kernel crashed X - Help
> I tried to compile an install kernel 2.2.10 on a 486dx2. > It compiled correctly, but when I tried to install it it wouldn't start > (halted with a message that it was trying to open some module and couldn't > find it, and then that it couldn't mount root file system on 03:01.) > I rebooted with the old kernel (a localy compile 2.2.5). > I then tried to recompile 2.2.10, reinstalled it, but it still didn't > work(same error). > When i went back to the old kernel again and login into x, when i tried to > log as a normal user, the screen would go blank and then throw me back to > the login prompt (kdm). It did let me login as root. > On the text consoles (not x11) i can log in as a normal user. > What did I kill? > All i changed was the kernels and lilo (at list as far as i know). > If it helps, the compilation over filled my hard disk (it showed 0 space > before starting the compilation) > The second, the one that crashed the system, I didn't clean the kernel > source before rebooting. > Thanx > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Dear Micha Feigin, I've had the X11 Problem, too. Possibly, you forgot to include some network drivers/ protocols needed by X11 (TCP/IP etc. I think) in the kernel. I just tried different protocols until it ran. If it can't mount the root fs, you forgot to include a driver for that fs in the kernel, I suppose. By the way, why are you willing to switch to 2.2.10??? You should clean up your hard disk-did it cause any errors when compiling the kernel? Kind Regards, Stephan Hachinger.
