On Sunday 02 August 2015 09:11:18 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 31 July 2015 13:53:42 Dale wrote: > > This may not be related but thought I would mention. For some reason, > > my system will not boot a kernel newer than 3.18.7. I use > > gentoo-sources and generally use make oldconfig. I have also tried the > > new 4.0 kernels as well. They try to boot but don't make it past the > > kernel trying to do its thing. I don't reboot often so I have not had > > the chance to figure out exactly why this is happening. Recently I had > > to start using that pesky init thingy but I don't think that is causing > > the problem. I get a error/panic and then it says it is going to > > reboot in 10 seconds. By the time I figure out where the failure might > > be, it reboots itself. > > That could well be it, Dale. I tried both my currently installed kernels, > 3.18.16 and 4.0.5, but of course they're both later than 3.18.7. I'd still > like to get this working, so I'll install an earlier kernel and try that - > when I've had a bit of a rest!
Nope. That wasn't it. Two more days of wrestling later I still haven't got it to boot. I have to conclude that this BIOS is simply incapable of it, or I've missed a kernel setting despite hours of poring over the config. -- Rgds Peter
