compiling and booting 2.6.34

[Stefan Bader]

On 05/28/2010 08:47 PM, Lucio Crusca wrote:
> Hello *,
> 
> I don't know if this is the correct place to ask, however I'm trying to 
> compile 2.6.34 vanilla on my Ubuntu 10.04 in order to spot a possible 
> regression bug in current Lucid Lynx kernel. However I can't get 2.6.34 to 
> boot. Can you help me have 2.6.34 boot on my system please?
> 
> If this is the correct place and you feel like helping me, you can take a 
> look at the bug report [1] for details about the kernel config I'm using and 
> my hardware, so that I don't repeat all that stuff here. 
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Lucio.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/585258
> 
> 
Hi Lucio,

if you wanted to try a 2.6.34 kernel with just the most similar config to the
standard Ubuntu config, it might be simpler to just use one of the pre-compiled
kernels from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/

As for the actual problem. This sounds very very much like the pain caused by
bios vendors blindly following guidelines which ms did not necessarily give.

Try to boot with acpi_osi="!Windows 2009" as a kernel argument and see whether
this does not revive the fn+f8 combination.

-Stefan