linux-kernel - Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

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Date:	Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:33:24 +0300
From:	Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@....fi>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

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 there is a bug that was fixed in
> 2.6.23-rc2 that might be the cause of your problem (you can test that
> easily by specifying edd=skipmbr on the kernel command line.)

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.

-Mikko
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