[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-Id: <20080422062840.195b4d3d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:28:40 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: "werner" <werner@...aya.yi.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>,
Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>
Subject: Re: EDD problem -- regression -- crash on booting by probing EDD
> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:33:32 -0300 (GFT) "werner" <werner@...aya.yi.org> wrote:
> There is a regression in 2.6.25.
Rafael bcc'ed.
> Booting stops with: Probing EDD (edd=off to disable) message.
>
> It dont work the kernel boot parameter edd=off . With pci=off the computer continues to boot, but later it dont find hard disks etc.
Tim and Matt cc'ed.
> Thats happening on 2.6.25 definitive, but was verified to go back until 2.6.24-rc6-git8, but it wasnt yet at 2.6.24-rc6-git2 which worked correctly.
>
hm, that's a nice narrow window. Unfortunately for the next few days I
can't personally get in and find out what we changed during it.
It would be useful if you could add `initcall_debug' to your kernel
boot command line, please. That will help us to confirm that the
bug is indeed in edd_init(), rather than in something which was
called later on.
Thanks.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists