Kernel update driving me mad

[Net Llama]

I've had this happen to me on a few rare occasions.  I've always chalked
it up to the kernel not uncompressing properly because of something
weird in its build.  Usually, i verify that i have met all the
dependencies needed, and do a rebuilt with an option here or there
changed.

--- Klaus-Peter Schrage <kpschrage at gmx.de> wrote:
> ... (not really, because I have a good old kernel installed to fall
> back on).
> In brief, what I did on a Redhat 7.1 system which is very up to date
> as 
> patches recommended by RH are concerned:
> - download the latest securrity update kernel from redhat.com
> - checked md5sum: ok
> - rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.9-31.i686.rpm, like I did many times before with
> other 
> kernels (2.4.9-21 was the most recent)
> - change grub's config file menu.lst to point to the new kernel
> - reboot.
> 
> Now booting into kernel 2.4.9-31 hangs after the message
>         "Unkompressing Linux ... Ok, booting the kernel."
> is displayed, and my machine can only be resuscitated by pressing the
> reset 
> button.
> I have checked again and again, it's not a question of typos in
> menu.lst, the 
> new kernel IS recognized by grub.
> There are two more baffling observations:
> 1. That very kernel boots from a 1.44 boot disk
> 2. I downloaded the corresponding headers and sources too and did a 
> recompile, applying a known good .config file that a have used before
> with 
> other kernels from the 2.4.9 series: No problems in compiling and
> installing, 
> but the resulting kernel 2.4.31custom hangs again.
> Any ideas, perhaps I'm too blind to see?

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