Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jun 2010 09:40:39 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere EP) |
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On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:54:29PM -0400, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote: > 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. > > Neither 2.6.27 nor 2.6.27.45 not able to boot those servers, according > to the on-site admins the boot stuck at following stage[1].
Good, it's not a regression :)
Care to upgrade to a newer kernel version and see if that works?
thanks,
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