Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:41:53 +0100 | From | Dieter Ries <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot |
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Ingo Molnar schrieb: > * Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de> wrote: > >> Ingo Molnar schrieb: >>> * Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I just pulled 2.6.29-rc1, ran oldconfig with defaults and built it. >>>> When I try to boot it, that kind of works until init should start. Then >>>> nothing happens. I tried with init=/bin/bash, which sometimes works, and >>>> sometimes gets me a bash without the prompt flashing. >>>> >>>> I captured the output with netconsole, but I cannot see a problem there. >>>> It is attached. >>>> >>>> My config is also attached. >>>> >>>> The machine: >>>> >>>> Lenovo Thinkpad T60 >>>> Core2Duo 2GHz >>>> >>>> Gentoo 64bit >>>> >>>> Everything worked fine with 83bc66f, which was my last pull. >>>> >>>> What else should I provide for debugging that? >>> hm, there's no 83bc66f in Linus's tree. >> Sorry, thats because I applied Timo Hoenigs patch for the fingerprint >> reader. So the right commit where it worked is 6680598. >> >> Before pulling today, I reverted that patch, to avoid conflicts, so I >> guess it should not matter. > > in the 6680598..v2.6.29-rc1 window there's more than 3000 commits: there > were libata and IDE changes, x86 changes, cpumask changes, ACPI changes > and more. Any of those categories could produce such error symptoms as > your box is showing. > > Unless you can see some particular badness in the kernel messages > (something that changed to the last working version) that narrows it down > to some subsystem, i suspect this would have to be bisected ...
I am starting to bisect now, will report back when I found something.
> > Ingo >
cu Dieter
-- 3rd Law of Computing: Anything that can go wr fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped
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