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 6F9341381FB for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3276A21C10B; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gg0-f172.google.com (mail-gg0-f172.google.com [209.85.161.172]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2A48B21C0C6 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:20:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-gg0-f172.google.com with SMTP id r1so1347104ggn.31 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:20:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=7I++5bcGTgR3umjcyeBMd8jsWoAvz0eBN2KrJ8aD0s0=; b=0p4nEJxtNjj66EpLtn8sLQMOCOzI1DwQHj7UFscYJDlZC+uqN2dih3N2f6+ZeVhp/J KbriRi0cSvKal2Z7mvTBGH/ZGGSoSTiXkoPoSr2qt4E8l+hwH5UYrMqezkgK3PIlGU3i W4ihYjewU9MTsw+cDGiu2WeuIuweVLFsJR0/aySWjh/PHEeo70mrfchJGumCU5PSyE4Z VbfvdSpItsVf8E4jMGS+cBWgHsCWAgl64nAxwj2KrZtfChBwm5NM4LgojXAG5jE4GmuV V5BiH3DOqIQwakc19pFo4MGnN0x7y2HNkVT/i38MG7z6AdbDe64MD3MhUYcXkgAo43bD W3Dg== X-Received: by 10.100.171.11 with SMTP id t11mr7057876ane.45.1356474025338; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:20:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-94-18.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.94.18]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g77sm22734122yhi.14.2012.12.25.14.20.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:20:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50DA26A7.4010309@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 16:20:23 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 SeaMonkey/2.14.1 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors References: <20121223192335.GC5230@crowfix.com> <20121224143520.GD26547@server> <20121224154110.GB5069@crowfix.com> <20121224160704.GE26547@server> <20121224165333.GE5069@crowfix.com> <20121225145656.GV26547@server> <20121225215133.GA5106@crowfix.com> In-Reply-To: <20121225215133.GA5106@crowfix.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 82899f99-b075-40c1-9944-824d841cf248 X-Archives-Hash: a237fa02a4b265724c1287beac43eaa4 felix@crowfix.com wrote: > 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. > This is what I would try: Do a lspci -k from whatever Linux you can boot, sysrescue CD or stick comes to mind here. That should list the drivers you need for hardware. Then mount partitions so you can get to /usr/src/ and cat the config file and make sure the results from lspci are built INTO the kernel, not modules but built INTO the kernel. You could even do: 'cat .config | grep -i ' Repeat that for each driver. Remember, arrow up keys for that one. Saves you some typing. lol If you have those built in, the only thing to check then is that the file system for / is also built INTO the kernel. That has always got me to at least a console login. Some other hardware may not work but you can boot and fix from inside the OS instead of booting DVD, USB stick or whatever and having to mount and such. That is such a pain to do. Maybe that will help. At least get you to a console. That alone makes fixing something else easier. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!