On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 8:51 PM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:36:08 -0400, Aruna Hewapathirane said: > > > but after selecting the new kernel at the GRUB2 menu it hangs at the graphical > > login and I am stumped. > > Does control-alt-F2, -F3, -F4 get you line mode consoles? If so, you > should be able to login, and get dmesg, the X server log, and the logs > for whatever greeter program runs for graphical login. No my keyboard is locked not responsive just the numLock led is on, so unable to control-alt-F2 :-( > If you can't get a line mode console, check if it's answering ping, and > if it's answering any tcp or udp based services (if you have any enabled). > Another thing to look at is netconsole to send kernel messages to a syslog > server running on another machine (or netcat at the destination if it doesn't > have syslog running), I found a 500Gb ssd inside one of the old machines and I started from scratch. Pulled out the two cables from the harddisks and plugged in the ssd, installed debian-10.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso then tried to compile kernel 5.12.13 from kernel.org and voila et success. And under 13 minutes to full compile. Also compiled linux-next-next-20210625 no issues, everything is good again. Someday I want to try and figure out what is going on with the original system. Oh, and Thomas Syslog tells me : Jun 25 10:46:42 debian systemd-modules-load[201]: Failed to find module 'vmhgfs' Jun 25 10:46:42 debian systemd[1]: Failed to start Load Kernel Modules. Jun 25 10:46:42 debian systemd[1]: Unit systemd-modules-load.service entered failed state. Does that make sense to you or anyone ? Anyways things are all good. I just have to pull out cables and hook up the ssd when I feel like compiling a kernel, which I can live with :-) Cindy Sue Causey I was wondering is there a 'reason' you are sticking with 'lilo' and not moving to grub2 ? Thank you everyone for all the help and support - Aruna _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
