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 1KxTRB-0003uw-Hb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:27:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C286E0457; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:27:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B37E5E0457 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gondolin.altum.de (p54BB9C85.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.187.156.133]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu6) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML29c-1KxTR72DlE-000528; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:27:41 +0100 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gondolin.altum.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AFCC2A4E60 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:27:41 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at online.de Received: from gondolin.altum.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gondolin.altum.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WTsDwghP1IhR for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:27:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gondolin.altum.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2DA92A4E61 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:27:40 +0100 (CET) Received: from gondolin.localnet (gondolin.altum.de [192.168.1.4]) (Authenticated sender: heini) by gondolin.altum.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D07D92A4E60 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:27:40 +0100 (CET) From: Dirk Heinrichs Organization: Privat To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade problem Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:27:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (Linux/2.6.27.4; KDE/4.1.2; i686; ; ) References: <20081104145110.090c6b43@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <20081104145110.090c6b43@osage.osagesoftware.com> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811042227.40322.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18zdJC34HmBOiWsufwStHaYvu4Rjkv6jqJXKTX Pet9bS2dcV9fwY3x9RJClMhKsjJ5pr70FrTyrwbvEdYMdjvF08 4hi34L7S4E/ZBdWJEf/Pg== X-Archives-Salt: 5cfb5416-ed0c-427a-9e17-27eec480d5bf X-Archives-Hash: 0b7d6380c414603fe1e82ec31245031b Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 20:51:10 schrieb David Relson: > 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". Don't know if that helps, but anyway, here's what I usually do: I only use kernel.org kernels (vanilla-sources in Gentoo). They're the same no matter the distro. I have a copy of my kernel config (in /etc/kernel/config). If you configured your kernel appropriately, you can also find the config of the running kernel in /proc/config(.gz). Upon a major kernel upgrade, I run make menuconfig, load my old config file and check all the important options, eventually switching on/off new options which I find useful. I never ever ran make oldconfig. I also never ran genkernel. Why should I? After leaving menuconfig it's just make, make modules_install, make install (or copy the appropriate kernel file to /boot manually). Then I run a self-written script which updates some symlinks in /boot (so that I don't need to edit grub.conf) and cleans /lib/modules, leaving only the currently running kernel and the new one arround, together with their modules. I didn't have a kernel related boot problem since a very long time now. But even if I had, I still have the old one. > 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. Don't know what mdev is (or is this a typo: udev), so I can't help with this. > Any suggestions of what to check for or change? Try to diff both kernel configs. Look wether there's something missing in the new one that was there in the old. Maybe try again with the method described above. BTW: I'm running 2.6.27.4 w/o any problem. Bye... Dirk