Recent Kernels failing to boot?

[Jeff Haran]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces at kernelnewbies.org] On Behalf Of
> Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 8:45 AM
> To: John Whitmore
> Cc: kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> Subject: Re: Recent Kernels failing to boot?
> 
> 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.

In his original post John said the problem was intermittent:

>I'd have to do a hard reset. I can't be specific
>on which version this started happening on as the problem is intermittent.

Git bisect isn't so helpful in cases like this unfortunately.

Jeff Haran