On 2/3/22 03:17, Michael wrote:
On Thursday, 3 February 2022 08:04:07 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 21:02:46 -0500, Alan Grimes wrote:
Do any of the kernels post 5.15.0 boot? I tried 5.15.2 and imediately
wrote off the 5.15 branch because it didn't even boot.
I came back to 5.16.5, same symptom, says "loading linux 5.16.5" and
then hangs, no further kernel output.
5.14.20 works great with same config, no known issues.
Now it's possible that something fantasmagorically stupid is going on
here, as is usual, but for the love of god WHY, just WHY?!?!??!
I have the same with one machine, see the thread "Kernel 5.15.11 won't
boot". Nothing there helped me, and I haven't had time to investigate
further, but there may be something for you.
I recall reading some foobar with "simple framebuffer" cropping up and also I
found this bug in case it helps with either of your machines:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/821406
I think there are possibly two separate issues going on here, at least
for me. I've been booting 5.16.1 and now 5.16.4 with no problems.
However, I recently tried booting 5.17-rc1 and rc2 (direct from
kernel.org, no gentoo package yet) and they both just sat there forever
after "Loading initial ramdisk." Going back to 5.16.4, I noticed that
there was far less logging to console than usual until some video switch
happened. Adding the simple framebuffer got all my logging back. It
also got a bunch of logging output with 5.17-rc2, but that still won't
boot for me - which is something for a different thread. When the
system is just sitting there - try to ssh in. It has probably actually
booted just fine, it's just not putting anything out to the screen.
Also, be careful - if you just search the config for "SIMPLE" it finds
two FB related entries - you need one of them and not the other, but I
am sitting at the wrong computer to check which.
Jack
