How to detect boot problems

[macnuke]

Hello,

is there any way to detect the problem with a non-booting kernel? Nearly every second kernel-update does not boot on my Pi. There are no messages on the screen, only the color screen and then... nothing.

For example I have now Kernel 3.10.29 running. The Update to 3.10.3x does not boot. Kernel 3.13.xx does not boot either.

Are there any ways?

[pepedog]

The biggest problem is when the fat partition does not have all data wrote to it at time of reboot.
best to sync && sync && sync before
Commands to reboot is reboot, poweroff to halt

[macnuke]

Thanks. This seems to fix this problem