On 05/06/2011 05:33 AM, Fredric Johansson wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:11 AM, "Tóth Attila" <at...@atoth.sote.hu> wrote: >> I gave a try to hardened-sources-2.6.38-r1 and -r2 on my laptop. >> Both version get stuck at the very beginning of the boot process: >> " >> Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done. >> Booting the kernel. >> " >> And that's it. Nothing happens thereafter. >> The processor is Pentium M, so a bit outdated. But it should still work >> anyways. >> >> In the mean time hardened-sources-2.6.38 works fine on the same system. I >> know, that some improvements were introduced because of a sec conf >> announcement after this version. I've simply copied over my previous >> config. >> >> Anybody else having the same problem or I'm alone? > > I have experienced a similar issue on h-s .38-r1 while the .37 kernel > works. I get past grub screen but I then get a blank screen and the > computer reboot a few seconds later. Due to time constraints I haven't > tried anything to solve it except trying to redo "make oldconfig" with > the .37 config. I didn't see any difference between the configs that, > to my humble knowledge, could cause this. > > //Fredric J
Thanks guys. Best to open a bug report regarding these issues. There were some serious changes with -r1 and it will be a while before upstream fixes them. The bug reports are better because I can then cc upstream on them. Thanks. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : bluen...@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 8040 5A4D 8709 21B1 1A88 33CE 979C AF40 D045 5535 GnuPG ID : D0455535
