On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 08:50:40PM +0100, Miroslav Rovis wrote:

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>
> May perfectly be as you write, kind veteran Unix Admin.
>
> However, I now remember I did have (well, on Gentoo, but it's the Unix
> version of Gentoo, not the systemd version, and I remember often issues were similar
> in Debian-based systems as in Gentoo)...
>
> [I now remember I did have] blank screens with kernels 4.8 I think, not
> the 4.9
> (
> sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.9.0 hangs at boot with blank screen
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602614
> ),
> so likely it wasn't that issue in that bug, the
>
> https://marc.info/?l=gentoo-user&m=148167681011303&w=2
> > ... CONFIG_VMAP_STACK...
> which appears only from the new kernel 4.9 .
>
> But the boot didn't appear irregular, just the screen went blank, and I
> lost all, keyboard, mouse, all, and there was no hard disk flashing at
> all.
>

You are absolutely right, my dear veteran Unix admin: that might be
the case as well :) I hope Emiliano will be able to find a way around
the issue, whatever the cause...

HND

KatolaZ

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