Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x

[Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Peter Weilbacher
<newsspam@weilbacher.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> after successfully using kernel 4.0.5 (vanilla-sources) for a while, I
> upgraded to 4.1.5 last week and 4.1.6 today. I cannot boot either of
> them. On the screen I see
>
>    Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
>    Booting the kernel.
>
> as the last thing, then it just sits there.
>
> To upgrade I copy the previously used .config to the new kernel
> directory and run genkernel with --no-clean and --menuconfig so that I
> get the same config as before -- unless I change something, which in
> this case I didn't. (This has worked very nicely since 3.1.x or so).
>
> Does that ring a bell with someone?
>    Peter.
>

I am running vanilla-sources 4.1.6, and so far I have not had any
trouble booting it.

Are you able to boot some of your previous kernels? If so, what does
your '/boot/grub/grub.cfg' look like?
What is the output of 'cat /etc/fstab' and 'ls -1 /boot'?

If you are not able to boot any of your kernels, if you could get a
hold of a Rescue CD or something like that and run the command lines
above, that would be helpful.