linux-kernel - Re: Can't boot kernel 6.17.4+ via rEFInd

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Message-ID: <20251026211334.GA1659905@ax162>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:13:34 -0700
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>
To: Eugene Shalygin <eugene.shalygin@...il.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can't boot kernel 6.17.4+ via rEFInd

Hi Eugene,

On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 09:25:45AM +0100, Eugene Shalygin wrote:
> I've got a problem booting the stable kernel 6.17.4 and 6.17.5 after
> updating from 6.17.3 via make oldconfig. Out of my 4 amd64 machines
> running Gentoo, two are unable to boot with rEFInd showing "Error: Not
> Found while loading <kernel file name>." Bisecting kernel sources
> points to commit 5b5cdb1fe434e8adc97d5037e6d05dd386c4c4c6.
> 
> All four machines use very similar toolchains: GCC 15.2.0 and
> 15.2.1_p20251018, binutils 2.45.
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220700 has kernel config attached.
> 
> Would appreciate any hints or suggestions.

Does applying

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251026202100.679989-1-dimitri.ledkov@surgut.co.uk/

help with this issue? Also, does 6.18-rc2 (or -rc3 if it is out by the
time you see this) have the same issue?

Cheers,
Nathan