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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: System silently not booting with 2.6.35 nor with 2.6.35.3 -- It works fine with 2.6.32.x and 2.6.18.x
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:17:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C753408.9010608@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinPLxZxOW70FtJBA3f4eG8kc-ju-G=UoATKV0qk@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/25/10 04:52, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 19:40, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> I would try enabling CONFIG_DEVTMPFS and CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT.
> 
> As neiter the working nor the broken config has this option enabled, I
> don't know
> how this will help with finding the combinations of config options that made the
> kernel fail to boot. Unless I am missing something?

Is the "working" one the one that didn't find a root fs?
This could help with that, but I guess you said that wasn't a concern.

good luck on it.
-- 
~Randy
*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***

      reply	other threads:[~2010-08-25 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-24 10:39 System silently not booting with 2.6.35 nor with 2.6.35.3 -- It works fine with 2.6.32.x and 2.6.18.x Richard Hartmann
2010-08-24 13:58 ` Richard Hartmann
2010-08-24 17:40   ` Randy Dunlap
2010-08-25 11:52     ` Richard Hartmann
2010-08-25 15:17       ` Randy Dunlap [this message]

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