On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:49 -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote: [...] > May I provide evidence to the contrary? > > I compile my own kernels, and use them exclusively unless some problem > arises which forces me to use another kernel. Therefore, I keep a stock > Debian kernel installed and available via GRUB in case something bad > happens with my kernels. > > In the Fall I had to replace the motherboard on my desktop system, and > it uses r8169. The Debian kernels for 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 will boot fine > on this hardware and provide perfectly working ethernet support. > > When 2.6.32-truck (AMD64 here) was released, I tried switching to that > for my Debian backup kernel... but it hangs in boot, with some very > nasty backtracing. It does print the warning about missing firmware, > but the boot will not finish -- unlike previous Debian kernels on this > same hardware. [...]
Please send these boot messages. A screenshot will do, but you might
need to use the kernel parameter "vga=6" to avoid messages scrolling off
the screen.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
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