ha! never mind...figured it out. ;P
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Mark
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Mark Weaver wrote:
> I don't know...maybe I'm missing something crucial here, but isn't the
> kernel supposed to boot after you've experienced a flawless compile? I
> can't get any of the 2.4.x kernels to boot on my Mdk 7.2 system. Just to
> see if it was a problem with ReiserFS I reloaded and changed the type of
> FS on my drives "back" to ext2fs and STILL when the kernel begins to boot
> it will get as far as re-mounting the ROOT fs as read/write, then this
> happens;
>
> Checking loopback filesystem [ OK ]
> Mounting loopback filesystem [ OK ]
> Setting Profile to: _ (at this point it just sits there and the cursor
> blinks until I decide to hard boot the machine)
>
> I was told previously that when I was running ReiserFS that there was a
> incompatable difference between the 2.2.x Reiser and the 2.4.x version of
> ReiserFS. So what stinkin profile is this silly bugger attempting to set?
> I've never seen a kernel behave this way.
>
> And this was a standard "developer's" install out-a the box. nothing
> special or fancy. Standard ext2fs partitions. As I said before I've
> changed AND freshly formatted the drives before doing this install to make
> sure that there wasn't a chance for Reiser to complain or anything.
>
> The kernel config was some what plain and standard in it's config. no
> strange or exotic drivers needed and the compile/make
> modules/modules_install went off without one single error.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
