Re: kernel 217.2.8 won't boot.
Markus Kesaromous wrote: From: linuxguy...@gmail.com To: fedora-list@redhat.com 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 david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
RE: kernel 217.2.8 won't boot.
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:56:49 -0400 From: david...@tmr.com To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: kernel 217.2.8 won't boot. Markus Kesaromous wrote: From: linuxguy...@gmail.com To: fedora-list@redhat.com 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! _ With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. http://www.windowslive.com/Desktop/PhotoGallery -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: kernel 217.2.8 won't boot.
On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 11:09 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: 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. Change the configuration in yum.conf to keep more than two kernels. Two's not enough for exactly the reason that you're concerned with. e.g. installonly_limit=6 I left mine high after seeing a rapid release of several kernels, yonks ago. I wouldn't recommend more than six, it gets slower for yum/rpm to sort itself out when you want to update/install things, the more you have installed. -- [...@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: kernel 217.2.8 won't boot.
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 03:35 +0930, Tim wrote: Change the configuration in yum.conf to keep more than two kernels. Two's not enough for exactly the reason that you're concerned with. e.g. installonly_limit=6 Thanks for the tip. I made this change. LG -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
