After I select the kernel in grub, the screen goes black and I get no output, logs, diskactivity, keyboard indicators or anything. Magic SysRq combo wont work. After about 15-25 secs, the system reboots by itself. Last working kernel was 2.6.38-r6. I have tried up to 3.0.1 without success. Reproducible: Always Hardware: MSI P35 Platinum with Intel P35 chipset. Geforce 8800GT 2 x Intel SSD X25-M I boot with the following kernel parameters: root=/dev/sda3 video=vesafb:mtrr:2,ywrap vga=35D rootfstype=ext4 Related bugs indicate intel modesetting enabled by default can cause this, but that obviously doesn't apply with my hardware.
Created attachment 282943 [details] kernel config used for 2.6.39-r4
Created attachment 282945 [details] emerge --info log
Portage 2.1.10.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.38-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.38-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps=y" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.ing.umu.se/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.klid.dk/ftp/gentoo/ http://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ http://mirror.gentoo.no/ " LANG="nb_NO.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en no" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://nas_server/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode evdev exif fam ffmpeg flac fortran gdbm gdu gif glitz gpm gtk hddtemp iconv id3tag ipod iptables java javascript jpeg kde kde4 kerberos kipi lcdfilter lcms ldap lm_sensors mad matroska midi mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp4 mp510 mpeg mpi mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg ogm opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl phonon plasma png policykit polkit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline sdl semantic-desktop session spell sql srt sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb vdpau vorbis webkit x x264 xcb xcomposite xft xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ice1712" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en no" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="canon pixma" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Are there any external modules you load on startup ?
(In reply to comment #4) > Are there any external modules you load on startup ? Yes. Network, USB and sounddrivers is built as modules, and the rest is in the kernel. It doesn't go as far as loading modules though, as I don't even get the pre-boot messages from the kernel, and there is no diskactivity.
Ok, I feel like an idiot for not discovering this before filing this bug, but it seems that FB_VESA is the problem here. Booting without FB_VESA enabled works as it should, but with this enabled it refuses to boot - no matter what mode I try to set in the kernel parameters. Close this bug, and I'll file another one if needed, when I've dug in to the FB_VESA problem some more. Sorry for wasting your time... -Plumbo
