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

[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 
new/changed config options in a sane way.

However, if you updated from a very old kernel, then essentially you 
should have configured the new kernel from scratch, with all the work 
this entails.

So even though this advise isn't gonna help in your current situation, 
doing updates ASAP so that they're smaller is much better than waiting 
for too long and doing huge ones; this often breaks too much stuff.

In your situation, configuring the kernel from scratch might be the best 
option.