Mandrake 10 Community boot issue

[ocilent1]

I have been running MDK 10 community (fully updated) for a few months using the 2.6 kernel and have been mostly happy.

 

The main problem I have with MDK 10, is that I don't think the 2.6 kernel is playing nicely with my external modem. (I have never had any issues with this modem in linux before, I have used linux for about 5 years, and this modem has always worked well)

 

So, I wanted to try the 2.4 kernel that is shipped with MDK 10, to see if my modem would work normally again (as the modem works perfectly fine under PCLinuxOS). However, when I installed the lastest 2.4 kernel from Mandrake onto the system, the boot process stops at:

 

Starting system logger:

 

It never gets past this point. I then rebooted into 2.6 disabled the syslog service, then rebooted again with the 2.4 kernel. The boot process then stops at starting alsa:

 

To cut a long story short, I had to disable hardrake,syslog,alsa,cups and stop X from starting to even get the system to a login prompt.

 

Any ideas whats wrong?? I have tried the original 2.4 kernel that came with community, the latest updated 2.4 kernel and the latest 2.4tmb kernel, and they all exhibit the same behaviour!!

 

Cheers!!

 

ocilent1

Edited June 5, 2004 by ocilent1

[iphitus]

When you finally get a login prompt, could you give us the output of

'dmesg'

 

As well as a rundown of what hardware you have and the listing of 'lspci'

 

iphitus

[ocilent1]

I did a fresh install of MDK 10 community on a spare partition I had and booted with the 2.4 kernel. No probs!!! So it would seem that when upgrading by syncing with the current community tree, something bad has happened.

 

I will give you a dmesg and an lspci as soon as I reboot!! :-)