Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:30:31 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: 3.2-rc2 regression: floppy driver breaks boot |
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On Tue 2011-11-22 08:21:21, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:14:06PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > 3.2-rc1..rc2 fail to boot, due to some warn-on in block layer. It > > seems that floppy driver is responsible. > > > > I'll try to turn the floppy driver off and see what happens.
Without floppy support my x60 boot. iwlwifi driver (CONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEGACY=y) went crazy after hibernation, but thats separate issue.
> > Seems like floppy driver has no maintianer :-(. > > Might be my issue as well. I've got an old AMD K6-III/450 system with > two floppy drives. When booting 3.2-rc2 (didn't try "-rc1"), the system > switches video modes (VESA FB console), and then hangs/panics. No > further info available because the panic happens too early for syslog to > record it, and the console goes blank at the time of the mode switch: > there's nothing on the screen I might transcribe manually. 3.1-final
Try turning off floppy support. That helped for me. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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