From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxSLB-0005KN-Bq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:17:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FBA4E0299; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 19:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (unknown [216.144.204.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2086E0299 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 19:51:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE1B3490 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:51:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:51:10 -0500 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade problem Message-ID: <20081104145110.090c6b43@osage.osagesoftware.com> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.12.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 22ab1831-1e1e-4ad0-b633-c71f8356683a X-Archives-Hash: d60d050e502e8eb9106085882e07bed3 G'day, Due to problems experienced with 2.6.25-gentoo-r7, I've built 2.6.27-gentoo-r2. I started with the 2.6.25-r7 .config file, ran "make oldconfig", then "genkernel all". The new 2.6.27 kernel appears to load modules OK, then hangs. The old 2.6.25-r7 kernel displays "Activating mdev" after it finishes loading modules. Any suggestions of what to check for or change? Thanks. David