booting question

[J. W. Ballantine]

Hi

I got hit with the fatal trap problem in the prerelease kernel.

Li Xin suggested that I unload, load kernel.old and re-boot.  When I did that
it hung during the boot process, just after the pci message.  I did
get the system to re-boot using kernel.GENERIC, but was wondering why
kernel.old hung since it was a bootable kernel.

Is this just a "gee it would be nice to know" item, or something
more critical?

Thanks

Jim Ballantine