Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-11 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Extremely bad idea. It's no wonder something did break. You can't just silentoldconfig between kernel versions and expect it to always work. At least oldconfig would catch new options (which might be options replacing old ones.)

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/11/2010 01:18 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. If you updated from 2.6.34 or even 33, then there shouldn't be a problem; make oldconfig should have worked OK and presented

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread walt
On 09/10/2010 03:18 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines... What kernel config items did you change to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, walt wrote: On 09/10/2010 03:18 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. Some of these I managed to fix by comparing kernel configs with working machines... What kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/11/2010 01:18 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. If you updated from 2.6.34 or even 33, then there shouldn't be a problem; make

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, Ajai Khattri wrote: Under the old scheme I specified /dev/md1 as my root in grub.conf but since this doesn't exist the boot fails. In trying to fix this I see that the LiveCD uses the following device files for the RAID partitions: /dev/md123 /dev/md124 /dev/md125

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread John Campbell
On 09/10/2010 05:30 PM, Ajai Khattri wrote: On Fri, 10 Sep 2010, walt wrote: The two main ones seemed to be disabling the deprecated ATA drivers and another one was disabling some sysfs options. But these changes didn't help in this case. At this point, I think Im better off sticking to the

[gentoo-user] Re: What's the story with 2.6.35 kernel?

2010-09-10 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 09/11/2010 03:31 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/11/2010 01:18 AM, Ajai Khattri wrote: I upgraded several machines and some failed to boot 2.6.35, they just hang after grub starts loading the kernel. If you updated from 2.6.34 or even 33, then