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mounty1
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 Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2023 7:34 am Post subject: silent no-boot [SOLVED] |
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Setting-up Gentoo on a new machine. Installation seemed to go alright; no unexplained error messages or anything like that. Hardware is a Kingdel NC860 with the Intel Wildcat chipset for just about everything, except the Realtek NICs.
When the machine boots, it shows:
| Code: | Loading Linux 6.1.1-gentoo-6 ...
Loaded Linux 6.1.1-gentoo-6
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where that second line comes from a mod. I made to the grub file. Nothing else is printed, nothing seems to happen, but the machine is not entirely locked-up as I can ctrl-alt-del.
As can be seen from the kernel config, there's a high level of debuggery in the kernel so I wonder if the kernel ever actually starts, and yet, grub is apparently doing its job.
What's going on?
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pietinger
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sMueggli
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2023 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I am just guessing, but I think that CONFIG_FB should be builtin and not a module. And then you can set also CONFIG_FB_VESA as built in module. |
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grknight
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2023 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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I would also add CONFIG_EFI=y and CONFIG_FB_EFI=y.
Also suggested to disable CONFIG_SYSFB_SIMPLEFB. |
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mounty1
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Thanks to all of you; CONFIG_FB=y was the fix.
How did I make such an obvious mistake, akin to making the root filesystem driver a module? A mistake while comparing with a known-good config. from another machine.
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