[Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kernel-tmb-3.3.6-1.mga2

Mon May 14 08:34:23 CEST 2012

Charles A Edwards skrev 14.5.2012 08:19:
+> On Mon, 14 May 2012 07:24:43 +0300
+> Thomas Backlund<tmb at mageia.org>  wrote:
+>
+>>> If I boot/try to boot this kernel all I get is a black screen.
+>>>
+>>> tmb-server_3.3.5-1.mga2 and server_3.3.6-1.mga2 boot normally
+>>> and with out issue.
+>>>
+>>> Using dual 560GTX-Ti with nvidia-current-295.49-2
+>>>
+>>> I use lilo as bootloader and boot to init 3.
+>>> Append for all installed kernels:
+>>> "nokmsboot resume=UUID=(snip) splash=verbose"
+>>>
+>>> /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash is set SPLASH=no
+>>>
+>>
+>> Does the -desktop flavour version work for you ?
+>
+>
+> Yes, it boots without issue.
+>
+> [charles at SuperSize ~]$ uname -r
+> 3.3.6-tmb-desktop-1.mga2
+>
+
+OK, so it seems BFS does not like SLAB allocator :/
+
+Since you are used to compiling kernels,
+can you confirm that by grabbing kernel-tmb-source,
+using the .config for kernel-tmb-server, but change
+CONFIG_SLAB=n and CONFIG_SLUB=y and build it
+
+and check that it boots for you...
+
+--
+Thomas
+
+