Can't boot

[Barry]

I wanted to say I fixed this by re-installing, but I'd be curious if 
anyone had a thought of what I did wrong and what might have been a 
neater solution.

Reinstalling is not that drastic for me, since I keep separate 
partitions for /home and for the data I am currently working on, but I 
was unable to make any headway until I reformatted the root partition. 
The error was always the same. After reformatting, installation was 
uneventful.

Barry

 > My machine will not longer boot up.
 >
 > I compiled a new kernel for my G4-450, with YDL 2.3. The system had been
 > up and running since Nov. with a 2.4.19 kernel I compiled at the time.
 >
 > The new kernel, 2.4.20, compiled fine. But one of the scsi modules
 > failed -- I didn't think that was fatal. I left the default as the
 > kernel I'd been using, added the new kernel as an option to
 > yaboot.config and ran ybin. When the new kernel wouldn't boot, I simply
 > tried rebooting to the default. No good. I then tried the 2.2 kernel
 > that comes with YDL, and no good again.
 >
 > Each time I restart the system fails at
 > Mounting proc filesystem: dup2 bad file descriptor
 >
 > After a few more lines of failure -- setting the clock, loading the
 > keymap, starting swap and setting hostname, bootup stops.
 >
 > At that point, in readonly, it seems that my partitions are intact and
 > that there are no filesystem errors.
 >
 > I tried recreating the boot partition to restore yaboot to the original
 > state. Still fail to boot at the same place.