I've been running a Fedora 17 guest machine successfully for several years, currently on VBox 4.3.24. The stock F17 kernel, 3.3.4, boots fine. I recently built a newer kernel, 3.8.13, to play around with the RT preempt patch. I started with the .config file for the 3.3.4 kernel.
The new kernel won't boot. It hangs at the message "Loading initial RAM disk". I built a different kernel (don't seem to have a record of which one that was) and it did the same thing.
Interestingly, I recently had students in a class build the 3.8.13 kernel on native Linux machines and they booted.
Any clues as to what I'm missing? Thanks.
New kernel won't boot, hangs at "Loading initial RAM disk"
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digitalwiz
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Re: New kernel won't boot, hangs at "Loading initial RAM dis
It is going to be really hard to tell where the failure is. I know I build my own kernels and don't have an issue but then again I have built some that did and I had to figure out what created the failure. Not something that can be done remotely I am afraid.