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SubjectRe: Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500
Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Monday 16 June 2008 22:11:39 Sean Young wrote:
>
>> The symptons are either a crash or reboot on booting the kernel. No
>> printk's have occurred yet -- even with early printk on.
>>
>> 2.6.15 worked on this board however current does not. I've bisected it to:
>>
>> commit a24e785111a32ccb7cebafd24b1b1cb474ea8e5d
>> Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>> Date: Sun Oct 21 16:41:35 2007 -0700
>>
>> i386: paravirt boot sequence
>>
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> Thanks for tracking this down. Can we try reverting this in pieces to see
> exactly what the cause was?
>
> 1) Revert arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S
> 2) If that doesn't fix it, Try removing the 8 lines which were added to
> arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
>
And the arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_32.c change too, just in case...

> I assume this is CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n?

What bootloader does this platform use? I wonder if it's setting things
up in an unexpected way?

J


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