New Kernel Hangs on Init: Version 2.84 Booting

From: Damian (damian_at_damiansdesigns.org)
Date: 01/30/04

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    Hello world.

    For the record this is my first post.

    I've successfully downloaded and installed Debian Woody, yeah! However
    after installation I needed to rebuild the kernel to support my sound
    card (Soundblaster Live! 5.1). I also have a 200 gb IDE HDD and read
    that I needed to use the 2.4 kernel to support the lba48 addressing that
    the drive needs to use. At the moment the drive only shows up as 137gb.

    So I used apt-get to retrieve the kernel sources from debian's ftp
    servers (kernel-source-2.4.24) and I followed some instructions
    (http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html) to get
    everything running.

    I spent 4 hours reading all the help information in xconfig and trying
    to make sense out of it. I picked what seemed like the right choices (I
    know, I'm a newbie) and rebuilt. Then I installed the kernel and
    rebooted. As the system came up it hung on

    .............

    Init: Version 2.84 Booting

    .............

    I did a bunch of googling and I saw that one solution would be to copy
    the config that I was using (for the default Debian Woody kernel
    2.2.20-idepci) and run

    .........

    make oldconfig

    .........

    in the /usr/src/linux directory. It asked me a bunch of questions to
    which I answered the default choices. I removed my first,
    non-functional kernel and then rebuilt and installed the new kernel
    based on the default config. I rebooted, and this time saw

    .............

    cram_fs: wrong magic
    Init: Version 2.84 Booting

    .............

    and it hung again. I tried again and made sure to include IDE support
    built straight into the kernel. More of the same. I'm sure I'm missing
    something fairly simple which is why, despite 3 days of searching, I
    can't find much help. So I reach out to the world for help...

    I'd be more than glad to post any config files that you all would need
    to help me through this. I'm a newb so go easy on me. And thank you.

    Peace
    -=Damian=- 

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