Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Keith Dart <keith@×××××××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:17:27
Message-Id: 20090710011654.76e8a565@dartworks.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware by Mick
1 On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:26:00 +0100
2 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
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4 > Thanks for the warning Helmut. I am still trying to get the 2.6.29 to
5 > work on my old laptop and was hoping that the 2.6.30 would offer a
6 > fix, but from what you are saying it may be a retrograde step in old
7 > hardware like mine.
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9 That's interesting. I have a new i7 system and any kernel earlier than
10 2.6.30-r2 would not boot from hard disk on my system (but would boot
11 same image from USB flash, strange). This new kernel finally fixed it
12 for me where I can boot from the hard disk. But seems to have broken
13 older systems...
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