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On 08/06/2020 11:06, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Afternoon all, |
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> Is there something special for me to set in the kernel config to enable it to |
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> find the root partition? I copied the config from 5.4.38, ran oldconfig and |
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> followed most of the suggested answers; but it won't boot. |
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Sounds like missing drivers. oldconfig didn't do everything it was |
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supposed to. Moving across multiple major versions, this is to be |
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expected. A lot of names of things have changed. |
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Do a comparison of your configuration between old and new. |
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diff -uN old-config-file /usr/src/linux/.config |
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Make sure to at least enable NVME with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME=y and try |
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booting 5.7 again. Other than that, the naming scheme may have changed |
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but I don't know about this. For better future-proofing, use a UUID of |
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your root partition rather than a device name. |
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root=UUID=... |
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You can get this UUID with the blkid command. |
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Andrew |
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