2008/2/29, Stephen Wilkinson <sw8511@gmail.com>:
Hello everyone,
After upgrading the kernel alone (and after fixing some kernel panics -- see postscript) the boot sequence now stops at loading the modules ([DONE]) and goes no further: the cursor blinks and I can type characters, but I never get a shell prompt. It seems the boot sequence doesn't go beyond rc.sysinit
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P.S: in case it's relevant, here is a summary of the kernel panics I got after upgrading the kernel and rebooting:
After kernel upgrade I got kernel panics because I hadn't changed initrd26.img to kernel26.img and /dev/hda5 to /dev/sda5 in Grub's menu.lst (as you can see I hadn't upgraded for a long time, and didn't pay enough attention to the upgrade messages). Having done that, I then had to correct /etc/fstab for the same /dev/hda5 mistake. Finally the kernel booted properly, but the sequence stops at loading modules.
please indicate current and previous versions of kernel, udev, initscripts, mkinitcpio. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)