Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-10 Thread Mikko Rapeli
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:20:31PM +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > I've bisected thus far, if it helps: Bisect came to this conclusion: git-bisect start # good: [4eb6bf6bfb580afaf1e1a1d30cba17a078530cf4] lots-of-architectures: enable arbitary speed tty support git-bisect good 4eb6bf6bfb580afaf1e1a1

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Mikko Rapeli wrote: > > Oops, I was wrong and bad enough to think nesting #ifdef's would work; > 2.6.23-rc2 with query_mca() to query_edd() in arch/i386/boot/main.c > commented out works. > > Sorry about that one. > OK, good. That would be consistent with the current analysis. Let me know wha

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-10 Thread Mikko Rapeli
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:20:31PM +0300, Mikko Rapeli wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:45:31AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Let me get this straight... "edd=skipmbr" boots fine, but commenting out > > the call to query_edd() didn't? Could you please try that (and, I > > guess, only that),

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-10 Thread Mikko Rapeli
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 12:32:39PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Could you please describe your hardware configuration, in particular: In http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118661306932149&w=2 but here again: > - what BIOS are you using; *-firmware description: BIOS

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Mikko Rapeli wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:45:31AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Let me get this straight... "edd=skipmbr" boots fine, but commenting out >> the call to query_edd() didn't? Could you please try that (and, I >> guess, only that), and make sure everything necessary is rebuild

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-10 Thread Mikko Rapeli
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 09:45:31AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Let me get this straight... "edd=skipmbr" boots fine, but commenting out > the call to query_edd() didn't? Could you please try that (and, I > guess, only that), and make sure everything necessary is rebuild. > > 2.6.23-*rc2* you sa

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Mikko Rapeli wrote: > > Nice, 2.6.23-rc2 with edd=skipmbr boots just fine. > >> Anyway, if that doesn't solve it: >> >> In main() in arch/i386/boot/main.c, please comment out everything from >> query_mca() to query_edd(), inclusively. > > This didn't help. > Let me get this straight... "edd=sk

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-10 Thread Mikko Rapeli
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:26:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Mikko Rapeli wrote: > > As I could guess from the changelogs, 2.6.22-git2 works and anything > > after 2.6.22-git3 doesn't. > > Okay, here is something to try. Don't try this unless you haven't > already tested 2.6.23-rc2, since th

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-09 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Mikko Rapeli wrote: > As I could guess from the changelogs, 2.6.22-git2 works and anything > after 2.6.22-git3 doesn't. Okay, here is something to try. Don't try this unless you haven't already tested 2.6.23-rc2, since there is a bug that was fixed in 2.6.23-rc2 that might be the cause of your pr

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-09 Thread Mikko Rapeli
As I could guess from the changelogs, 2.6.22-git2 works and anything after 2.6.22-git3 doesn't. -Mikko - 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 r

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-09 Thread Mikko Rapeli
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 12:25:02AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > It might be an issue with the new setup code. What happens if you > append "vga=ask" to the kernel command line? I get to choose the vga mode but nothing visible happens after that. This seems like regression since even 2.6.23-rc2

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-09 Thread Mikko Rapeli
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 12:25:02AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > So it's not printing "Uncompressing kernel... " at all? Yes, nothing comes up. Machine responds to three-finger-salute and numlock status can be changed, though. > It might be an issue with the new setup code. What happens if you

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-09 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Mikko Rapeli wrote: > Hello, > > Since 2.6.23-rc1 I can't boot an old k6 (with a funky IDE drive worth testing > with libata). The boot hangs without a sound or letter prints on the > screen right after grub, while 2.6.22.1 works fine. > So it's not printing "Uncompressing kernel... " at all? >

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-08 Thread Mikko Rapeli
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:09:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Often such an early crash is due to a config problem. eg: chose the > wrong CPU type. So I'd recommend that you triple-check that config, > especially under "Processor type and features" before diving into into the > bisection hunt.

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 07:57:43 +0300 Mikko Rapeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 05:02:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 01:31:20 +0300 > > Mikko Rapeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Since 2.6.23-rc1 I can't boot an old k6 (with a funky IDE drive wo

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-08 Thread Mikko Rapeli
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 05:02:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 01:31:20 +0300 > Mikko Rapeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since 2.6.23-rc1 I can't boot an old k6 (with a funky IDE drive worth > > testing > > with libata). The boot hangs without a sound or letter prints on

Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 01:31:20 +0300 Mikko Rapeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since 2.6.23-rc1 I can't boot an old k6 (with a funky IDE drive worth testing > with libata). The boot hangs without a sound or letter prints on the > screen right after grub, while 2.6.22.1 works fine. Try adding the `ea