linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.36 does not boot properly

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Date:	Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:04:49 +0300
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	CSÉCSY László <boobaa@...galware.org>
CC:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, aris@...hat.com,
	peterz@...radead.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	VAJNA Miklós 
	<vmiklos@...galware.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.36 does not boot properly

On 12/13/2010 02:19 AM, CSÉCSY László wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have recently upgraded from kernel-2.6.35-5-i686.fpm (which is a 2.6.35.7 
> speaking upstream's terms) to kernel-2.6.36-1-i686.fpm (which is a 2.6.36) on 
> my ASUS K50IJ laptop running Frugalware Linux -current, and it failed to boot 
> when I used the usual command line:
> 
> kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 ro quiet resume=/dev/sda5
> 
> "Failed to boot" means that the thing does not even output even a single 
> character after "[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size=0x3c5380]" but hangs - 
> even C-A-Del does not do anything (I do have waited for half an hour). 
> Pressing the power button (it does not matter for how long) turns the laptop 
> off immediately.
> 
...

It's weird that bisect pointed to this nmi code snipped movement, I
think the issue in strcmp, and in event_create_dir. Better to
CC Steven.

-- 
    Cyrill
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