Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere EP) | | From | ""S.Çağlar Onur"" <> | | Date | Tue, 25 May 2010 23:29:04 -0400 |
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Hi Suresh,
On May 25, 2010, at 8:24 PM, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> 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.
Sure, I'll try to boot those with plain 2.6.27 to see but please note that it's going to be little time consuming. For each one I have to create a custom boot image for them to download and test (a.k.a. don't expect to hear from me soon :))
> thanks, > suresh
Best regards, -- S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@cs.princeton.edu>
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