working around boot problems

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Thu Jun 4 19:20:56 UTC 2009


> It's frustratingly difficult to immediately work on the "unknown
> filesystem jffs2" problem because more often than not, the same kernel
> for me fails to even reach that stage (see my "another boot hang"
> thread).
>
> Switching to Deepak's 2.6.30-rc5 kernel for XO, both problems
> mysteriously go away. Here are the files and the procedure if anyone
> else wants to try it out.
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090604/
>
> I don't know what else works or fails in Deepak's kernel, or if there
> are any plans to ship it instead of the Fedora kernel for these XO-1
> efforts.
>

What about the 2.6.30-rc8 kernel that's sitting in koji waiting for
the F-12 rawhide floodgates to open. You can get it directly from koji
here
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=104641

Peter




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