2016-12-23 14:58 GMT+01:00 Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@gmail.com>:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 1:59 PM, fredbezies via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
Hello.
I'm facing an annoying bug with linux 4.9-1 kernel on my 6 or 7 years old Toshiba Laptop. When I try to make it boot on with linux 4.9-1 kernel, it freeze right after loading initramfs.
4.8.xx kernel was working flawlessly. My eeePC (nearly 9 years old) and my desktop computer (which is AMD based) are both starting with linux 4.9.
I opened a bug : https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52246
Here is my lspci. If someone can help me finding what is happening, [...]
Does the fallback boot entry work?
No.
Have you tried reinstalling the kernel?
Yes. [...]
If this is a regression you will have to post dmesg. If you don't see errors/warnings, then kernel developers would usually ask to enable debug flags for printing more information during boot.
I wonder if there is any dmesg logged while booting on initramfs... Will try to see anyway.
That said, I have one old machine with a Core2Duo and GM4xx and ever since DRM's atomic modesetting was introduced in 4.2, I can only use 4.1 warning free. Regressions do happen but you had no warnings or errors in 4.8 so yours looks like a different regression.
I wonder which option listed here is the culprit. https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/linux&id=26d5f8c9110f0fca96a7ef05c235dd005b1049a7 -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies@gmail.com