linux-kernel - Re: System silently not booting with 2.6.35 nor with 2.6.35.3 -- It works fine with 2.6.32.x and 2.6.18.x

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Date:	Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:17:28 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@...linux.org
Subject: Re: System silently not booting with 2.6.35 nor with 2.6.35.3 --
 It works fine with 2.6.32.x and 2.6.18.x

On 08/25/10 04:52, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 19:40, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
>> I would try enabling CONFIG_DEVTMPFS and CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT.
> 
> As neiter the working nor the broken config has this option enabled, I
> don't know
> how this will help with finding the combinations of config options that made the
> kernel fail to boot. Unless I am missing something?

Is the "working" one the one that didn't find a root fs?
This could help with that, but I guess you said that wasn't a concern.

good luck on it.
-- 
~Randy
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