I originally wrote: > Platform is a Dell CPxJ 650GT notebook. Attempts to boot 2.6.21-rc3 > and -rc4 produce the following console output: > > (apparently normal boot) > ... > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx > PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1 > PIIX4: chipset revision 1 > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x0868-0x086f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio > (hangs here) > > The next two lines of output for 2.6.21-rc2 and earlier are: > Probing IDE interface ide0... > hda: TOSHIBA MK3017GAP, ATA DISK drive
After nine iterations of git-bisect --> compile --> reboot over the past two days, the commit that caused this problem has been identified. 6bb74df481223731af6c7e0ff3adb31f6442cfcd is first bad commit commit 6bb74df481223731af6c7e0ff3adb31f6442cfcd Author: john stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon Mar 5 00:30:50 2007 -0800 [PATCH] clocksource init adjustments (fix bug #7426) This patch resolves the issue found here: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7426 The basic summary is: (omitted for brevity) Signed-off-by: John Stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :040000 040000 b259cf01f6ad791a0f58c9956e6e0111cb9aa310 0e8fbf31c0bae9ca6039fc7781b53c12f7a67592 M arch :040000 040000 19bd5cf3c55c6b7947ec66b68eab643c99f15bb8 ef8fda0445287e34eeb466985901ca64191b6539 M drivers :040000 040000 4f84ad7bdf509ed83efd95d174796f1a6a948b0e 51624663be2fdce8aaeb3b49e188520aa3735d90 M include :040000 040000 ef82986d4590fed84b9a128da90e65f7e43f43a9 778d0cf7273d7514b436ca4e91a6948f34694972 M kernel -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Tracy WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.anti-dmca.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/