RE: kernel 217.2.8 won't boot.

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> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:56:49 -0400
> From: davidsen@xxxxxxx
> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: kernel 217.2.8 won't boot.
>
> Markus Kesaromous wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> From: linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx
>>> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
>>> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:09:19 -0600
>>> Subject: kernel 217.2.8 won't boot.
>>>
>>> Kernel 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i586 works fine on my laptop, but 217.2.8
>>> won't boot at all. It seems to run through everything just fine and
>>> then the video starts blinking like crazy in text mode, like it can't
>>> start the nvidia driver. After that I get a black screen with a
>>> blinking cursor.
>>>
>>> Kernel 217.2.3 is working OK for me. I can live without 217.2.8, except
>>> that I am worried that the next kernel update will delete it and I might
>>> be left with zero working kernels.
>>>
>>> Any idea on what I could do to get 217.2.8 running ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> $ uname -a
>>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i586 #1 SMP Wed Jul 29
>>> 15:46:46 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> $ yum list kernel
>>> Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, downloadonly, kmdl, priorities,
>>> refresh-packagekit
>>> 1 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
>>> Installed Packages
>>> kernel.i586 2.6.29.6-213.fc11 @updates
>>> kernel.i586 2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11 @updates
>>> kernel.i586 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11 @updates
>>>
>>> $ yum list \*nvidia*
>>>
>>> Loaded plugins: dellsysidplugin2, downloadonly, kmdl, priorities,
>>> refresh-packagekit
>>> 1 packages excluded due to repository priority
>>> protections
>>> Installed Packages
>>>
>>> kmod-nvidia.i586 185.18.31-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-213.fc11.i586.i586 185.18.29-1.fc11
>>> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i586.i586 185.18.31-1.fc11
>>> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>> kmod-nvidia-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586.i586 185.18.14-1.fc11.6
>>> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.i586 185.18.31-1.fc11 @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>> xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i586 185.18.31-1.fc11
>>> @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>>
>>
>> Seems to me fedora kernel is screwing up more things than just video drivers which are supplied by xorg, but some of these drivers do not work on the fedora released kernel.
>>
>> I am currently running FC11 2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i586 and my radeon driver from xorg seems to eork fine. However, I wanted to see if I could
>> build and install latest 2.6.31-rc7
>> from kernel.org. Well, kernel configured and built and installed and booted just fine, but no gnome desktop because the radeon driver wont work on this kernel. Ditto with kernel 2.6.30.5
>>
> I think the answer is "from kernel.org" rather than "from rawhide" in this case.
> There were many changes in video with the 6.30 and 6.31 kernels, and I tried the
> rawhide one to fix my Intel video (did). But other things may have to change as
> well, so using the rawhide kernel is sometimes more successful that a raw
> kernel.org, particularly if you have custom modules tainting your kernel.
>
> You might try doing that.
>
> --
> Bill Davidsen 
> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
> the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
>

I tried
kernel-2.6.30.4-25.fc11.src.rpm 
and
kernel-2.6.31-0.167.rc6.git6.fc12.src.rpm

with the same result. No Video!




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