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From: Peter Weilbacher <newsspam@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 20:52:09
Message-Id: alpine.DEB.2.11.1508302250310.2828@comporellon
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x by Fernando Rodriguez
1 Hi Fernando,
2
3 On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
4
5 > 1. Add loglevel=7 to your kernel parameters and see what it prints before it
6 > hangs.
7
8 That helped, it showed me something about drm, so...
9
10 > 3. From your kernel parameters I assume you're using the radeon free driver
11 > right? If that's the case disable it (don't compile it in or just delete the
12 > module) and try to boot wiith a framebuffer.
13
14 ... this was a good suggestion. Switching off DRM/Radeon gets me a
15 kernel that boots. However, with that config I cannot run X (which then
16 complains about missing kernel mode switching). If I follow
17 wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide#Kernel_modesetting I again arrive at the
18 kernel settings that I previously had and which didn't work with 4.1.x.
19
20 Any more suggestions?
21 Peter.

Replies

Subject Author
[gentoo-user] Re: Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting vanilla kernel 4.1.x Fernando Rodriguez <frodriguez.developer@×××××××.com>