Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 May 2012 15:22:18 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: 3.4.0-02580-g72c04af regression on sparc64 - partitions not recognized | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 22:17:57 +0300 (EEST)
>> > Just tested 3.4.0-02580-g72c04af on about 10 machines. While most of >> > them work (including 3 different sparc64 machines with real scsi disks), >> > Sun Netra X1 with pata_ali and IDE disk consistently fails to boot. sda >> > is recognized but no partitions. 3.3.0 works fine, as did something >> > around 3.4-rc7 (plain 3.4 not tested yet). No other IDE machines tested >> > yet since I have none with remote console at the moment. >> >> 3.4-rc7 until 72c04af is about 3500 changes, we'll need to narrow this >> down further. >> >> I would first check to make sure that 3.4.0-final doesn't have the >> problem. >> >> If 3.4.0-final is OK, start bisecting from v3.4.0 until 72c04af. One >> possibility could be the sparc64 NOBOOTMEM conversion that went into >> the merge window. > > Meanwhile tested that 3.4 was OK and started bisecting. It will take > time because I can access the system only some iterations per day.
Ok, thanks a lot.
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