Hello, Michael. On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 16:05:38 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Thursday, 22 August 2024 15:46:41 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 22 August 2024 12:57:21 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Is there an easy way to persuade portage to download the ebuild for > > > gentoo-sources 6.6.38? Why have I got 6.6.47 instead?
> > 6.6.47 is the current stable version. > > Can't help with your more immediate problem, I'm afraid, because I don't use > > RAID. My new machine had a kernel panic last night, being unable to mount the RAID1 root partition. I "didn't change anything" and it booted just fine today. I wish I understood why. These things normally work the other way around, and I don't wish to appear ungrateful, but I would really like to understand what went into "didn't change anything". > Running a diff between my kernel .config files for gentoo-sources 6.6.38 and > 6.6.47 I don't see anything relevant to RAID, although I don't have > CONFIG_DM_RAID enabled on this system. Yes, 6.6.47 has become the new stable Gentoo kernel, and I've now updated my old machine, and this worked without problem. This was mainly to test that nothing RAID-wise had gone missing in the kernel. It hadn't > May be worth rechecking your raid configuration and how you ran mdadm, the > NVMe UUIDs you've entered in fstab, etc. It all seems to be working now, thanks! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
