From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263971AbTEWJOb (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 05:14:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263973AbTEWJOb (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 05:14:31 -0400 Received: from web11803.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.172.157]:47653 "HELO web11803.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263971AbTEWJO1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 May 2003 05:14:27 -0400 Message-ID: <20030523092733.58183.qmail@web11803.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:27:33 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Etienne=20Lorrain?= Subject: Re: 2.5.69 doesn't boot To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >> # Character devices >> # >> # CONFIG_VT is not set >> # CONFIG_SERIAL_NONSTANDARD is not set > >No VT console is set. Did someone noticed that if a user want to test Linux-2.5, he downloads for the first time a 2.5 kernel, extract and type make menuconfig and that takes its default (.config) from the only kernel available on his (really standard) distribution - a 2.4.* kernel. Then, there isn't any CONFIG_VT to choose for (I do not know why) - it is completely undefined and not present in the menus. If you type "make bzImage; cp bzImage /boot" you get a kernel which seems to crash at startup even for the simplest configuration you've choosen. The obvious solution is to do - when it is the first time you configure a 2.5.* kernel, the line: cp arch/i386/defconfig .config but I am not sure this is intuitive enough... Etienne. ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com