Re: Can't boot kernel 6.17.4+ via rEFInd

Nathan Chancellor
2025-10-26T21:13:38Z

Hi Eugene,

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 09:25:45AM +0100, Eugene Shalygin wrote:
> I've got a problem booting the stable kernel 6.17.4 and 6.17.5 after
> updating from 6.17.3 via make oldconfig. Out of my 4 amd64 machines
> running Gentoo, two are unable to boot with rEFInd showing "Error: Not
> Found while loading <kernel file name>." Bisecting kernel sources
> points to commit 5b5cdb1fe434e8adc97d5037e6d05dd386c4c4c6.
>
> All four machines use very similar toolchains: GCC 15.2.0 and
> 15.2.1_p20251018, binutils 2.45.
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220700 has kernel config attached.
>
> Would appreciate any hints or suggestions.

Does applying

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251026202100.679989-1-dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk/

help with this issue? Also, does 6.18-rc2 (or -rc3 if it is out by the
time you see this) have the same issue?

Cheers,
Nathan