gentoo-sources 6.18 fails to boot

[stqn]

Sorry about the lack of precise information in this post; I am posting this to see if maybe some other people have had a similar issue and might know how to fix it.

On both version of the 6.18 kernel available with gentoo-sources so far, they both fail to boot on my PC. 6.12.58 works fine.

The first version crashed with some error message (didn’t take a photo of it). The second version (6.18.18) seems to boot very slowly and ends up listing my SATA/SCSI(?) drives and then stops.

I have a Zen 4 CPU and motherboard: Ryzen 7800x3d CPU, MSI MAG B650 TOMAHAWK WIFI motherboard.

The motherboard BIOS has some updates available but their changelogs are VERY vague so I have no idea if they will fix the issue. (This motherboard is shit :( ).

For the moment I keep on using the 6.12 kernel but I wonder if the problem is on the kernel side, or on the BIOS side, or something else (my kernel config maybe).

[pietinger]

]...] but I wonder if the problem is on the kernel side, or on the BIOS side, or something else (my kernel config maybe).

The most common cause is a problem with the kernel configuration; that's why we should check that first. How did you configure 6.18? Did you use “make oldconfig” to carry over the configuration from 6.12? Or did you take a different approach?

If you need help with the kernel configuration, there are two main options:

1. Boot into 6.12 and send us (*) the output of "dmesg" and "lspci -nnk" (as well as the 6.18 .config file, of course), or
2. Try to figure it out yourself... using: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pieti ... rsion_6.18
Yes, you really should read https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pieti ... figuration BEFORE

*) Please use wgetpaste for this (see more here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pieti ... nformation )

[pietinger]

stqn,

Have you managed to solve the problem?