On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 11:49 -0500, Dave Witbrodt wrote:
[...]
> May I provide evidence to the contrary?
>
> I compile my own kernels, and use them exclusively unless some problem
> arises which forces me to use another kernel. Therefore, I keep a stock
> Debian kernel installed and available via GRUB in case something bad
> happens with my kernels.
>
> In the Fall I had to replace the motherboard on my desktop system, and
> it uses r8169. The Debian kernels for 2.6.30 and 2.6.31 will boot fine
> on this hardware and provide perfectly working ethernet support.
>
> When 2.6.32-truck (AMD64 here) was released, I tried switching to that
> for my Debian backup kernel... but it hangs in boot, with some very
> nasty backtracing. It does print the warning about missing firmware,
> but the boot will not finish -- unlike previous Debian kernels on this
> same hardware.
[...]
Please send these boot messages. A screenshot will do, but you might
need to use the kernel parameter "vga=6" to avoid messages scrolling off
the screen.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
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