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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources-2.6.38-r* problems at the very beginning
Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 12:02:49
Message-Id: 4DC3D54E.8000102@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] hardened-sources-2.6.38-r* problems at the very beginning by Fredric Johansson
1 On 05/06/2011 05:33 AM, Fredric Johansson wrote:
2 > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:11 AM, "Tóth Attila" <atoth@××××××××××.hu> wrote:
3 >> I gave a try to hardened-sources-2.6.38-r1 and -r2 on my laptop.
4 >> Both version get stuck at the very beginning of the boot process:
5 >> "
6 >> Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
7 >> Booting the kernel.
8 >> "
9 >> And that's it. Nothing happens thereafter.
10 >> The processor is Pentium M, so a bit outdated. But it should still work
11 >> anyways.
12 >>
13 >> In the mean time hardened-sources-2.6.38 works fine on the same system. I
14 >> know, that some improvements were introduced because of a sec conf
15 >> announcement after this version. I've simply copied over my previous
16 >> config.
17 >>
18 >> Anybody else having the same problem or I'm alone?
19 >
20 > I have experienced a similar issue on h-s .38-r1 while the .37 kernel
21 > works. I get past grub screen but I then get a blank screen and the
22 > computer reboot a few seconds later. Due to time constraints I haven't
23 > tried anything to solve it except trying to redo "make oldconfig" with
24 > the .37 config. I didn't see any difference between the configs that,
25 > to my humble knowledge, could cause this.
26 >
27 > //Fredric J
28
29 Thanks guys. Best to open a bug report regarding these issues. There
30 were some serious changes with -r1 and it will be a while before
31 upstream fixes them.
32
33 The bug reports are better because I can then cc upstream on them. Thanks.
34
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