Re: strange problem after booting a backstreet ruby kernel

[Aivils S. <Aiv...@un...>]

>i applied the backstreet ruby patch (2.4.22-20030910)
>against a vanilla copy of linux-2.4.22 that I got from
>kernel.org, and was able to compile and install the
>resulting kernel. The system I am running this on is
>i686 redhat9.
>
>The kernel loads, but once it starts init, I get some
>error messages about the usb support (I have connected
>a usb & PS/2 keyboard), and then i see a message that
>says "starting system logger", the first of my system
>services, but I don't see the resulting ok/fail
>message, nor any other output.
>
>My PS/2 keyboard works, so I can type letters and they
>appear on the screen. But nothing else seems to
>happen. I can press CTRL+ALT+DEL and the system
>switches to runlevel 6.
>
>I have tried putting a line in my inittab just before
>the line that starts the sysinit scripts, to run
>mingetty on tty2, thinking that maybe then I could get
>into a shell and see whats going on. But when I do
>that, I get a message from init, just before the
>message about the system logger (above), that says
>that it is respawning to fast and is disabled for 5
>minutes.

At least rh8.0 will not work with vanilla linux kernel.
As experiment You can remove "system logger" in
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
Before You can test vanilla linux under rh9.0. RedHat
uses heavy patched kernels. If rh9.0 will not work
with linux-vanilla kernel, then it will not work with
linux-ruby :-(

Aivils