Reboot loop after slackware current 64 upgrade

checholalo · 11-18-2017, 07:43 PM

I am on an HP laptop running Slackware current 64 since a year or so. After the last upgrade, including the new kernel 4.14.0, I ran the eliloconfig as ever and reboot the system (using the reboot order from the system button of enlightenment, which is my desktop manager). The system attempt to boot, but it stops at the vmlinuz initial message and then fall in a rebooting loop. It is very strange, and I do not what can I do to solve this.

Any help will be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

AlleyTrotter · 11-18-2017, 07:46 PM

Having a very similar problem
you are not alone
I tried a hard metal install and a virtual machine
both end up with the reboot loop
john

rworkman · 11-19-2017, 12:03 AM

Tonight's round of updates will hopefully fix that.

sasongko · 11-19-2017, 12:09 AM

Me too, with huge kernel. But, it run well with generic kernel

cycojesus · 11-19-2017, 01:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rworkman

Tonight's round of updates will hopefully fix that.

Nope, huge kernel still goes straight to reboot here on my home server (Gigabyte GB-BAGE-3150)

sasongko · 11-19-2017, 03:56 AM

On my laptop (Lenovo Ideapad 110), until the last update (Sun Nov 19 03:36:30 UTC 2017), it still looks no effect on the huge kernel. Booting from generic kernel so far is no problem.
However, I can boot from a huge kernel by this way:
1. Boot from Slack64 14.1 DVD (the latest DVD I have)
2. On the grub menu select Detect/boot any installed operating system
3. Select Linux /boot/vmlinuz-huge-4.14.0

trollog · 11-21-2017, 04:37 AM

x64 current, huge kernel 4.14.0. Falling back to 4.9.53 huge works fine.
Asus x502c laptop.

On my other computer, lenovo running current 64, the 4.14.0 kernel boots fine.
Go figure.

last update applied were the 21 november 05:05:41 pm updates via slackpkg.

elilo-3.16-x86_64-5

zerouno · 11-21-2017, 06:49 AM

Be sure that the /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware/elilo.efi is the same than /boot/elilo-x86_64.efi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 237749 Nov 20 19:36 elilo-x86_64.efi

or remove it and rerun eliloconfig

Regnad Kcin · 11-21-2017, 12:17 PM

it was a nasty little problem but after some consternation and a new upgrade all is well and spiffy.

I am learning more about elilo than I really wanted to know but still not enough.

trollog · 11-21-2017, 01:41 PM

re running elilo conf. there was a mismatch in size between the *.efi in boot
vis-a-vis the one in /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware