Re: current mainline doesn't boot

From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Fri Oct 17 2014 - 19:44:59 EST


Hi,

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 05:44:02PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> Anyone know a workaround for the problem booting current mainline?
> 3.17 works fine for me, but recent mainline since 3.17 goes to a black
> screen near the end of boot as X is about to start.
>
> I also tried the Ubuntu build of the day (which also is based on
> current mainline but with the Ubuntu config just in case it was some
> driver issue) which fails the same way.

you need to provide more information, here are a few queries which might
help:

1. which architecture ?
2. Can you get a serial console to get some dmesg output ?
3. after screen is black, can you ctrl + alt + F1 and get a console ?
4. where's you .config ?

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balbi

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