Re: Trouble booting a fresh built kernel--stuck on `loading initial ramdisk`

2019-12-13 Thread Tony Fischetti
I just discovered the problem... or rather, a workaround for the problem. As a last resort, I created a new user on the system and performed the compilation/installation through that user. It worked. I'm still investigating what exactly about my profile (environment variables? PATH/shadowed binarie

Re: Trouble booting a fresh built kernel--stuck on `loading initial ramdisk`

2019-12-12 Thread deloptes
Tony Fischetti wrote: So what you are saying is that you run debian with 4.19. and want to build this same 4.19. and can not boot cause not loading initrd. Correct? If true is strange because I would not expect to overwrite the current image. You sure the build/installed new version is different

Re: Trouble booting a fresh built kernel--stuck on `loading initial ramdisk`

2019-12-12 Thread songbird
Tony Fischetti wrote: > Any kernel I compile gets stuck on the "loading initial ramdisk" > stage. It tried it multiple different ways and the result is always > the same. Any advice on what I can do to find out what's going on, > would be greatly appreciated > > More info: I'm using stable. The mos