From: fruktopus@gmail.com (Stephan Müller)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Recent Kernels failing to boot?
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:05:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5405B29C.2070200@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140902111424.GB2678@griso.site>
Am 02.09.2014 13:14, schrieb John Whitmore:
> I'm not even sure that this is the correct home for this question but sure
> it's worth a punt. I'm running OpenSUSE on a netbook and use it to compile and
> install the latest kernel from Linus's git repo. This has always been a simple
> operation pulling the latest, updating the config file, make and install.
>
> A few versions ago I hit a snag in that once installed the new kernel would
> show up in the grub2 menu but once selected for boot the machine would just go
> to a blank screen and hang. I'd have to do a hard reset. I can't be specific
> on which version this started happening on as the problem is intermittent. It
> seems to be a race condition sometimes a kernel will boot and sometimes it
> won't.
>
> I thought I could investigate this issue but I can't find any debug info for
> this problem at all. grub2 is happy as it's handed control over to the kernel
> but there's no evidence of any kernel activity in the logs at all for the
> requested boot.
>
> So the reason for this post is to ask if anybody could suggest how to debug
> this issue. I think it came in about 3.14 but like I say it's intermittent.
>
Hi,
some time ago I had a similar problem. It was caused by an invalid grub.cfg. Have a look there, maybe your kernel never gets started.
stephan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-02 12:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-02 11:14 Recent Kernels failing to boot? John Whitmore
2014-09-02 11:46 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2014-09-02 12:05 ` Stephan Müller [this message]
2014-09-02 15:45 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-09-02 16:48 ` Jeff Haran
2014-09-03 0:01 ` Jonghun John Park
2014-09-03 1:19 ` nick
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