From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE171393A3 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:53:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E69A521C0E7; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:52:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from crowfix.com (li35-165.members.linode.com [72.14.176.165]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D27C721C0D4 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:51:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 13286 invoked from network); 25 Dec 2012 21:51:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO df.crowfix.com) (10.130.13.2) by 10.130.13.1 with SMTP; 25 Dec 2012 21:51:50 -0000 Received: (qmail 6371 invoked by uid 1000); 25 Dec 2012 21:51:33 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:51:33 -0800 From: felix@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors Message-ID: <20121225215133.GA5106@crowfix.com> References: <20121223192335.GC5230@crowfix.com> <20121224143520.GD26547@server> <20121224154110.GB5069@crowfix.com> <20121224160704.GE26547@server> <20121224165333.GE5069@crowfix.com> <20121225145656.GV26547@server> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121225145656.GV26547@server> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: f44c999c-187a-4df8-ba96-8dc0220fb239 X-Archives-Hash: 6cb9d777b449e4a63c4f54c020c80577 On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 08:56:56AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: > I would suggest you run "lspci -nnk" with your running 3.6.10 kernel and save > that output. Then go into the kernel source directory for 3.7.1, run "make > mrproper" then "make defconfig" and enable all the kernel drivers listed in > the "lspci -nnk" output, as well as the drivers for your IDE/SATA controllers, > and / filesystem. That kernel should boot you, and will get rid of a lot of > the cruft from the present bloated kernels. Made a minimal 3.7.1 kernel, much smaller and compiled nice and fast. Hung just like the bloated one, drat. So I guess I will read up on bisecting. I know the principle, but have never tried it. I suppose one starting point is make sure a pure-vanilla 3.6.10 kernel boots. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o