Linux kernel startup problems: how to analyze?
- by java.is.for.desktop
Hello, everyone!
After manually updating the kernel from 2.6.33 to 2.6.34 on my OpenSuse 11.2 Notebook, it stops after the message
Loading drivers, configuring devices...
This stop can be interrupted with Ctrl-C, but when the system enters runlevel 5, no partitions are mounted (but the root partition), many services fail to start, and other strange things are going on. No X11.
NOTE:
I manually updated the kernel many times before, it worked.
Yes, I know, in case of NVidia, the driver has to be recompiled.
The question is:
How can I analyze the cause of the problem?
Doing dmesg gives me soooo much output, I can't "map" it to the output which I see at startup. The output does not contain the string Loading drivers, configuring devices, or similar.