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enihcam

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[SOLVED] linux-ck 4.15 freezes at "Loading initial ramdisk..."

My NAS has Pentium N3700, 4GB RAM, SATA3 SSD, 4x i211 NICs. linux 4.15.3-2 boots fine.

linux-ck 4.15 freezes at

Loading Linux linux-ck ...
Loading initial ramdisk ...

but Ctrl+Alt+Del still works.

kernel config:
https://ptpb.pw/KCFw

Yes, I've already read the following threads:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=234530
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=231013
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=232347

but none of them resolved the issue.

linux-ck boot had been working good till I upgraded it from 4.14.20-1 to 4.15.4-1. Reused config (/proc/config.gz), NUMA disabled.

Disable MuQSS did not help.

Switch from EFI to MBR did not help. (Yes, I reformatted whole system)

Remove quiet and add loglevel=7 earlyprintk=vga shows nothing.

@loqs @graysky

Last edited by enihcam (2018-02-26 14:37:10)

graysky

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Re: [SOLVED] linux-ck 4.15 freezes at "Loading initial ramdisk..."

Are you able to boot to 4.15.6-1-ARCH?  Are you able to boot into 4.15.6-1 from [repo-ck] using the same boot parameters?  As an aside, if you’re running this as a headless NAS, why use Linux-ck at all?

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enihcam

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Re: [SOLVED] linux-ck 4.15 freezes at "Loading initial ramdisk..."

Are you able to boot to 4.15.6-1-ARCH?  Are you able to boot into 4.15.6-1 from [repo-ck] using the same boot parameters?  As an aside, if you’re running this as a headless NAS, why use Linux-ck at all?

Thanks for reply, graysky.

I just found that the boot works if "set gfxpayload=text" in grub.cfg.

Yes, I'm able to boot to 4.15.6-1-ARCH.

My NAS is also my home router. I build linux-ck from AUR with customized (minimized) config, which gives me lower latency and higher performance.

Last edited by enihcam (2018-02-26 14:38:26)

graysky

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Re: [SOLVED] linux-ck 4.15 freezes at "Loading initial ramdisk..."

I just found that the boot works if "set gfxpayload=text" in grub.cfg.

Yes, I'm able to boot to 4.15.6-1-ARCH.

So booting with that settings works for both CK and ARCH and without that parameter does not work for both CK and ARCH?

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CPU-optimized Linux-ck packages @ Repo-ck  • AUR packages • Zsh and other configs

enihcam

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Registered: 2009-12-20

Posts: 220

Re: [SOLVED] linux-ck 4.15 freezes at "Loading initial ramdisk..."

I just found that the boot works if "set gfxpayload=text" in grub.cfg.

Yes, I'm able to boot to 4.15.6-1-ARCH.

So booting with that settings works for both CK and ARCH and without that parameter does not work for both CK and ARCH?

ARCH always boots; CK boots iff "set gfxpayload=text" in grub.cfg.

It could be somewhere misconfigured, but i still had totally no ideas after I compared the .config files.