[SOLVED] New kernel will not boot...

deepspace9 · Last edited by deepspace9 on Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:54 am; edited 1 time in total

I just updated my kernel from 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 to 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 I used exactly the same config as the old kernel had to create the new one.

linuxgeekery · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2005 Posts: 27

Weird... does your /bin/bash exist? Boot from a livecd and try to find out. My only other thought might be that you didn't compile support for your FS. (e.g. using JFS and not compiling in support to the kernel).

deepspace9 · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:56 pm Post subject:

whig · l33t Joined: 27 Nov 2004 Posts: 973 Location: New Zealand

deepspace9 · Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:59 am Post subject:

whig · l33t Joined: 27 Nov 2004 Posts: 973 Location: New Zealand

I would save your old .config, delete it from the the kernel source and type

deepspace9 · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:37 am Post subject:

You mean like a clean config with genkernel? Do everything over again?

That sucks, but I guess if anything else fails, I'll have to do that..

Any other thoughts what might cause this error? dmraid issues with the new kernel?
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wantilles · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:38 pm Post subject:

Why do you ever use genkernel?

It has always been a totally silly and ineffective system.

I wonder why they are still keeping after all these years.

Take your old config, do a "make oldconfig", answer NO or the default answer to all the questions and you'll be fine.

crocop · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 47

I'm having the same problem. I have two kernels one with all sata driver included and otherone with only nvdia stata driver. I have ASUS A8N -E with nForce 4 and that's why I thought I'll need only nvidia. But it doesn't work - the same error. Now I want to get back to the old cofig but I didn't save the old one and now when I'm including all the drivers I get an error. Luckily I have this old kernel with all necessar sata drivers included, and that's why I can use the system, but can I restore a config file form it(this old kernel)?

whig · l33t Joined: 27 Nov 2004 Posts: 973 Location: New Zealand

The config of the running kernel should (but not always) be found in /proc/config.gz

deepspace9 · Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject:

crocop · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Posts: 47

wantilles · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 11:55 am Post subject:

deepspace9 · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:57 am Post subject:

wantilles · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject:

wazoo42 · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 165

I realize the steps aren't that hard, but they can be a bit tedious especially if one doesn't recompile the kernel all that often. Hence, genkernel is quite nice b/c one doesn't have to worry about make clean, etc, creating the initrd image, or editing the menu.lst.

mliesenf · Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:55 am Post subject:

I've been experiencing a very similar issue on a dual opteron 240 system. I have an old hardened amd64 kernel which works properly, but any new kernel I attempt to compile fails with messages that indicate a kernel panic and something not syncing.

From all of the testing I've done, I think it may have something to do with a system timer, or scheduler, or HPET, or RTC or something... I'm back to guessing.

If there was a [Solution] in this thread I missed it. It doesn't seem like anybody knows what the problem is for sure.

deepspace9 · Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject: