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Boris Kavod
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 Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2006 11:20 am Post subject: [SOLVED][BOOT PB]Starting Local... and nothing |
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Hello,
(sorry for my uncorrect English: I'm French)
I have an ununerdertood problem about the boot of my Gentoo.
My box has nearly 6 month old. Everything was OK.
Nearly 1 month ago, I decided to switch it to ~x86 branch. After only 1-2 easy problems fixed, it worked perfectly. But I have not upgraded the kernel since.
Today, I decided to do this. I upgrade so the gentoo-sources from 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 to 2.6.15-gentoo-r5. For this I:
- emerged the package
- copied the .config to the good directory
- make menuconfig
- saved configuration
- make && make modules_install
- emerged nvidia-kernel
- copied the bzImage to the /boot directory
- updated the grub.conf with one entry for the new kernel and another backup entry for the old one.
- rebooted
And here: problem. All the boot sequence is normal, but at "Starting Local" stage, the PC stop be busy and nothing happend. When I strike "Enter", the screen response so it is not a graphical freeze problem. Then, the Ctrl+Alt+Del works correctly.
The more surprising is when I boot on my old kernel I have exactly the same problem!!!!
Can you help me about this problem or help me knowing the problem source because I cannot see any log in this case.
Thanks a lot!!
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NeddySeagoon
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Boris Kavod,
You don't say that you updated your /usr/src/linux symbolic link to point to your new kernel.
If you missed out this step and did it will still be pointing at the old kernel.
You will therfore have recompiled parts of your old kernel, probably with a later gcc.
This will cause unpredictable behaviour.
Do you still have a copy of the config for your old kernel, so you can remake it?
You must start the build process with so all the old binaries, made with the old gcc are removed.
Any kernel modules may not load until you do | Code: | | emerge module-init-tools |
with the new compiler too.
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Boris Kavod
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 13 Jan 2004
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Location: Colombes (France - 92)
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Yes I have done the symlink.
In fact... I found the solution. No link with my branch switch, no link with my kernel update...
It comes from my /etc/conf.d/local.start file. I have added lcdproc command which sends CPU state to my Palm (yes, I know, it is a geek badget). For all of my precedent boots, my Palm was not plug so the command fail and for the first time, it was so the command ran (it is a blocking process).
So, I have added a "&" after command and everything is OK now.
However, the problem allows me to know when the local.start file is executed.
Sorry for the distrub  |
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