[SOLVED] Boot hangs after selecting kernel

[truls]

I have recently installed the 2.6 kernel, so I have LILO with both the old 2.4.26 and the new 2.6.8 kernel. Now I can select either one, and the 2.4 works fine, but the 2.6 kernel just hangs after displaying "Loading Linux_2_6..........................".

It's really weird, because it worked fine the first couple of times, but now it just freezes. I have not changed anything.

Any ideas?

[je_fro]

In my computing experience, nothing ever "just works fine then stops without changing anything". Unless there is some hardware component that's going bad.
Thoughts:
Have you changed/updated module-init-tools?
Can you post your lilo.conf?
Can you try re-copying the bzImage and see if that works?

[truls]

Well, when I say that I haven't changed anything, what I really mean is that I can't remember having changed anything. It's semantics really.

I copied everything once more, ran LILO once more, and tried again. Still no good. Then I changed LILO to point directly to the kernel (I was using a symlink vmlinuz->vmlinuz_2_6), and then everything worked. So I guess you can't symlink the kernel.

Have you changed/updated module-init-tools?
No, but then again I don't know how. I'll have to look this up and see. I have been fiddling around with ALSA a lot, since skype is giving the other party a great big echo, and I've been trying to find a solution to this (which, at the moment, seems to be "use the iBook"). I'm sure I will be bothering y'all with it soon.

Anyways, thank you for giving me some ideas. I was kind of hoping the hardware was failing, so that I could have an excuse for buying something new. Oh well...

[serz]

What distro are you running? Is it up todate?

In order to use a 2.6 kernel you need to be up to date with some packages..they're listed in this (http://kerneltrap.org/node/799) guide.

Have you tried copying the System.map to your /boot? I don't know if that would help..

If none of these work, you can try to compile all from scratch (again) and see what happens.

Best of luck :)

[je_fro]

You _can_ symlink a kernel. I'll bet you made an error doing it...no big deal. I never use symlinked kernels.