[SOLVED] Kernel >= 3.6.5 boot failure

Stebalien · 2012-11-06 18:46:31

Kernel 3.6.5 and 3.6.6 fail to boot (they don't reach init). My setup is prohibitively difficult to debug (custom kernel with all debugging turned off, direct efistub booting) and I don't really have the time to make it debuggable at the moment. However, others (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1185863, https://lwn.net/Articles/522320/) have noted what appears to be the same problem so I have started this thread in order to hopefully collect enough details to report a bug.

Hardware/setup: https://gist.github.com/4026650

Updating the efi entry (and signature) changed nothing.

Interestingly, appending verbose to the boot params produced no output. This may indicate a graphics problem instead of a the USB initialization problem experienced by the lwn reader.

Last edited by Stebalien (2012-11-19 10:46:51)

6ng4n · 2012-11-06 20:43:21

If you applied the wiki steps which are about initcpio hooks to update kernel files in /boot/efi directory that would be happened. The hook doesnt work anymore and you must edit the hook that updates vmlinuz-arch.efi.Last week i experienced a similar problem fortunately i've discovered the error. For doin this work you can simply install grub-efi

Last edited by 6ng4n (2012-11-06 20:44:38)

Stebalien · 2012-11-06 21:05:16

6ng4n wrote:

If you applied the wiki steps which are about initcpio hooks to update kernel files in /boot/efi directory that would be happened. The hook doesnt work anymore and you must edit the hook that updates vmlinuz-arch.efi.Last week i experienced a similar problem fortunately i've discovered the error. For doin this work you can simply install grub-efi

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I don't have an initramfs and my custom kernel package directly updates the efi file. This is (almost) definitely a kernel bug and unlikely to be a configuration problem. I am just looking for others experiencing the problem and information about potential patches.

Stebalien · 2012-11-19 10:46:28

As of kernel 3.6.7, this bug (if there really was one in the first place) appears to have been resolved.

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#1 2012-11-06 18:46:31

[SOLVED] Kernel >= 3.6.5 boot failure

#2 2012-11-06 20:43:21

Re: [SOLVED] Kernel >= 3.6.5 boot failure

#3 2012-11-06 21:05:16

Re: [SOLVED] Kernel >= 3.6.5 boot failure

#4 2012-11-19 10:46:28

Re: [SOLVED] Kernel >= 3.6.5 boot failure

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