Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere EP) | | From | Suresh Siddha <> | | Date | Tue, 25 May 2010 17:24:11 -0700 |
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On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:51 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 04:32:16PM -0400, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > On May 25, 2010, at 11:53 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 11:10:28AM -0400, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> We are observing boot failures [1] & [2] on some of our servers (Dell > > >> r410) with 2.6.27-stable kernels. I found following commit in upstream > > >> tree via a quick search (but I haven't tried it yet) so I don't know > > >> whether I'm on the right track or not. > > >> > > >> Please let me know if anything else is needed... > > > > > > Has any .27 kernel worked on these machines? If so, can you narrow it > > > down to the patch that caused the problem? > > > > I don't think any .27 kernel worked on those machines before. But in > > any case I'll try (I don't have a physical access to those machines as > > they are located in China) an older .27 release to see. > > Ok, so it isn't a regression, which is what I want to know. > > New hardware like this, probably will only work on newer kernel > versions, so please use those instead :)
I can't think of any known issues in 2.6.27 that can lead to this kind of boot failure on WSM-EP. Caglar, It will be nice if you can do git bisect between working and non-working kernels.
thanks, suresh
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