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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: booting problems
To: pitlord@usit.net
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 04:45:13 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <32C9EC2F.533A@usit.net> from "Troy Settle" at Dec 31, 96 11:46:39 pm
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Troy Settle wrote:
> 
> again).  If I enter '/kernel' at the boot: prompt, it
> will load the kernel, but upon initialization, it just
> hangs.  After about 15 minutes, I give up, and give it
> a 3-finger salute, and boot '/kernel.GENERIC' with no
> problems.
> 
> I rebuilt the kernel a few times, and the problem kept
> repeating itself.  I moved the HD off to another system,
> and all my kernels booted just fine.

	can you send us several files?
	1. a copy of your kernel config file
	2. the output of '/usr/bin/uname -a'
	3. the output of '/sbin/dmesg'
jmb