Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:31:03 +0200 | From | Damien Wyart <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.30.2: does not boot |
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> > I am seeing a similar problem (no hang but an immediate reboot) on the > > same distro. I tried to bisect but got no good kernel in the end.
> > To clarify things I recompiled again 2.6.30.1 with the orginial .config > > and it also failed to boot (I was happy to have renamed it so the > > working kernel was still available). I suspected a recent gcc 4.3 > > upgrade so downgraded gcc, but no luck, still getting the same problem. > > So for now I am quite stuck, but there is clearly a bad problem > > somewhere...
* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [2009-07-20 11:16]: > Hmm. So you _had_ a working self-compiled 2.6.30 kernel at some point?
Yes, my case is very similar to the one described by Kiko Piris, and I also think this is getting off topic.
> One thing to look out for is that a compiler upgrade/downgrade will be > invisible to the kernel build system, so if you downgrade the compiler > and recompile, you may not actually recompile things at all.
I tried the bisect with the same compiler and then for other tests I recompiled from scratch each time on a tmpfs to make sure I was not messing things up. On this machine, ccache is not used.
So I am suspecting a recent glibc or binutils upgrade (gcc downgrade did not solve the problem) and even if some people noticed problems with 2.6.30.2, my issue seems different and only distro-related.
-- Damien Wyart
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