On 24 May 2014 16:53, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/24/2014 01:20 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> Since kernel 3.12.13 (3.12.13-gentoo), the kernel boot messages have >> disappeared, i.e. they are no longer displayed at boot time. All I get >> is a line like "Loading kernel 3.12.13". (I just upgraded to >> 3.12.20-gentoo, so now it's something like "Loading kernel 3.12.20".) >> >> I have no idea why. I checked my grub config and it does not add a >> "quiet" argument. I see nothing in /etc/rc.conf about quiet (or >> verbose). And X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP is set to 'y'. I also looked for >> "quiet", "boot", and "messages" (while running "make xconfig") and >> nothing untoward showed up. >> >> How do I get back to a normal and sane boot process? > > What is the next thing you see after "Loading kernel 3.12.20" ?
Nothing. There is a pause of a dozen seconds or so and then the login panel appears. By the way, I checked again and it says "Loading Linux 3.12.20-gentoo ..." (just to be complete and precise). > What was the last kernel that booted normally? Does it still boot > normally? I don't quite remember. :-( Probably whatever kernel came before 3.12.13 but I don't have any leftover configs or anything like that. I ran the sys-kernel/aufs-sources (to be able to use Docker) so it might have been one of those but I doubt it. > The kernel config files for each kernel are installed as > /boot/config-3.12.nn so you can compare them to see what changed. Well, not by default... :-) In any case, I have deleted it all. It didn't seem a difficult thing to fix and whenever I had logged in other stuff happened that made me forget about the boot messages. :-) It's just today I decided to google for it. Surprisingly, nobody is complaining about this so it must be something specific to my environment. I just have no clue what. I certainly did nothing (on purpose) to get rid of boot messages.
