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Goverp
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 Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2024 5:06 pm Post subject: Heads up - kernel-6.11.4 won't boot off my SSD |
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My laptop wouldn't boot off its SSD using kernel 6.11.4, using the same .config as 6.11.3. As I have an initramfs, I could use busybox to look around. No /dev/sda. Not sure where it had gone, but definitely no visible hard drives.
This is using raw source from kernel.org, not any Gentoo-packaged version, so it's missing any Gentoo patches. The hard drive is one packaged to replace the original spinning rust.
I've just installed 6.11.5, and now I'm back to normal; presumably the problem was spotted and fixed. Which is good, as I didn't want to spend an afternoon bisecting!
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Zucca
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| Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2024 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | M710q ~ # uname -r; qlist -Iv gentoo-kernel
6.1.110-M710q-0.1
sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-6.1.110 |
I think I avoid this bullet.
But... Out of interest, is there something wrong with sys-kernel/vanilla-sources?
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Goverp
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| Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2024 11:02 am Post subject: |
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| Zucca wrote: | | ... Out of interest, is there something wrong with sys-kernel/vanilla-sources? |
gentoo-sources are fine for most uses. I switched to vanilla (for certain values of vanilla) when new hardware caused problems needing git-bisect to have any chance of a bug report becoming a fix. The "certain value" was thus git clone. Which is a painfully large amount of network traffic and load on kernel.org, so I investigated shallow clones.
I found that with appropriate settings, a git pull for the next kernel.org stable release is usually a very small update, quick and easy to apply, so that's what I use regularly. At one time it sometimes had the advantage of leaving the source tree sufficiently undisturbed that kernel "make" would recompile few changes, which made an update fast. That seems to have gone - possibly updates always mark something crucial as changed, or maybe it's a combination of LTO and mitigations making kernel builds big these days. Even with a ruthlessly trimmed .config and a Ryzen 5950X, it's several minutes. C'est la vie.
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