[TriLUG] New 2.6.8.1-10mdk Kernel Won't Boot

[Joshua Gitlin]

Hey TriLUG,

I recently upgraded to mandrake Community 10.1 on my (ancient) Dell 
laptop... To get my ACX-100 based wireless card working, I had to 
recompile the kernel, which I've doon before... but this time, after 
configuring the kernel, doing a 'make', 'make modules','make 
modules_install' and a 'make bzImage', something went wrong. I 
installed the new image in /boot and added it to LILO, rebooted, and I 
got:

Decompressing vmlinuz.............
BIOS Data Check Successful.

And then my machine rebooted. Finding this Odd, I changed my 
configuration and recompiled. No dice.

On a hunch, I cd'ed to /usr/src/linux and tried to execute 
'./vmlinux'... just to see what would happen.

It segfaulted! Is this normal???

I then ran gdb on my new kernel... when I told GDB to run, I got:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xc010000000 in startup_32()

That's the whole backtrace. 0xc010000000 in startup_32(). It segfaults 
the moment it loads! Which leads me to believe that's what happened 
when I tried to boot my new kernel.

So, now I'm stuck and don't know what I did wrong. Any thoughts?

Thanks Guys!

-Josh

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