So, my LFS-7.2 install is complete, and apparently functional. Last month I asked about updating the kernel in the LFS-7.2 I've been building. Ken suggested going fro the 3.5.2 up to 3.14. I decided to make that in two jumps, stopping first at 3.10.62-LTS.
There were interruptions. I've built that now, but during boot there appears to be something dumping some data on the console about once a second! It's hard to tell exactly when it starts. When it gets to the Login prompt, I've only got about one second to use Shift-PgUp before the next console write jerks me back. At that point it's "00 00 00 00 00 00"; no identifier of who's doing it or what it means I've seen. It might be after udev starts, but I'm not sure. It's got to be something introduced in the 3.10.62 kernel, because I don't see this with 3.5.2. So I've a few questions: 1) Does it ring any bells with anyone who's seen it before? 2) Anybody got any ideas how I can get more clarity about where it's coming from and why? 3) The USB drivers and udev make the console incredibly noisy about then. How can I get that off the console and redirected to the bootlog for use if it becomes a debugging issue? 4) I've read the LFS page about selecting kernel parameters. It's pretty basic. I've gone through every one of the kernel parameters and selected those that seemed good for an uncustomized, any sort of typical PC/i686 hardware, initial boot. Some I didn't fully understand, so made my best guess. I know about the kernel-newbies site, helpful interpretting the kernel changelogs. But is there some site that gives good information about what all the parameters mean, beyond what the kernel config itself presents in its "Help"? A site the kernel team keep current for each kernel release, hopefully. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
