On Monday, 8 June 2020 16:32:07 BST Andrew Udvare wrote: > Sounds like missing drivers. oldconfig didn't do everything it was > supposed to. Moving across multiple major versions, this is to be > expected. A lot of names of things have changed. > > Do a comparison of your configuration between old and new. > > diff -uN old-config-file /usr/src/linux/.config
Hmm. 4570 lines, but much of it can be discounted. > Make sure to at least enable NVME with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NVME=y and try > booting 5.7 again. Yes, they were both set already - I couldn't have booted 5.4.38 without them. > Other than that, the naming scheme may have changed but I don't know about > this. For better future-proofing, use a UUID of your root partition rather > than a device name. > > root=UUID=... > > You can get this UUID with the blkid command. I'll try this in a minute - thanks for the idea. I've stuck with device names so far because (i) I can read them, and (ii) I can't ever have more than one NVMe device in this box. -- Regards, Peter.
