Recent Kernels failing to boot?

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 12:14:28 +0100, John Whitmore said:
> I'm not even sure that this is the correct home for this question but sure
> it's worth a punt. I'm running OpenSUSE on a netbook and use it to compile and
> install the latest kernel from Linus's git repo.

OK... So you have a git tree handy already.

> A few versions ago I hit a snag in that once installed the new kernel would
> show up in the grub2 menu but once selected for boot the machine would just go
> to a blank screen and hang.

So what was the last version that booted OK for you, and what was the first
one that failed for you?  With that info, you can easily do a 'git bisect' and
track down the commit that broke your hardware.
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