Bug#430393: image built from linux-source-2..6.21 can not be booted up
On 06/25/07 04:04:06PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 03:28:09PM +0800, Ye Fei wrote:
> >
> > I installed the linux-source-2.6.21 by "apt-get install", and built
> > the
> > linux-image for my laptop ibm-X32 with
> > "suspend2-2.2.10-for-2.6.21.1.patch" patched, however when boot up, it
> > often stops at the stage:
> > "waiting for /dev to be fully populated"
> > Ocasionally, it can go beyond this a little, then still stops
> > somewhere.
> >
>
> suspend2 is evil, remember not to want a gif decoder in kernel space ;-)
>
This is a bit OT but suspend2 hasn't had any fancy UI stuff in the kernel
for a long while now. But I've never tried patching suspend2 into the
linux-source packages provided by Debian so it is possible there is some
bad interaction between it and something Debian does but that's pretty
unlikely.
> boot with rootdelay=9, check if your root dev is there and all the
> usual initramfs debug stages.
>
> sorry but we don't support handbuild kernels.
> almost ready to close.
>
This I understand though, it would impossible to support the infinite
number of possible configurations, especially when they start incorporating
external patches like this bug filer.
Jim.
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