Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Chris Murphy wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Nice tip. Unfortunately, btrfs --version says 3.18. I suppose that is not >>>> sufficient. >>> >>> 3.18 is fine. 3.18.1 pulled in small fixes. >>> >>> >>>> I like this procedure, it sounds simple. Any way to fix it? I guess the >>>> btrfs was from initramfs, and that installing a newer kernel would update >>>> initramfs and get me btrfs 3.18.1 when booted this way? >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>> >> >> Thanks, I installed kernel 3.18.3, and followed your instructions to run >> btrfs check --repair from initramfs. >> >> But now that I have kernel-3.18.3 installed, I tried (fully) booting into it. >> Surprise, it won't boot. Choosing it from grub, I get the usual boot >> progress indication, but hitting esc to show messages, all I get is a black >> screen. >> Can't switch vt. No indication of disk activity. Nothing found (later) in >> /var/log/messages about 3.18.3 - I don't think the boot got far enough. >> >> Booting up 3.17.8 works fine. > > > Interesting. I'm having the same problem, intermittently, with kernel > 3.18.3. I haven't had a chance to do much regression testing though, > and have since moved to 3.19 kernels which don't seem to have this > problem. The handful of 3.18.3 boots I've tried, it always booted with > nomodeset; and only intermittently failed without it. So I figured it > was some video regression... > > What happens if you remove 'rhgb quiet' and add 'nomodeset' parameter? > > Then I see lots of messages before it hangs. It's not completely dead - I can page back through the messages. I don't really see anything that looks like an error. I got 'Welcome to Fedora 21'. Last message was random: nonblocking pool is initialized (after a while) But alt-ctlr-del doesn't seem to do anything. -- -- Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
