Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:54:29 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere EP) |
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:24:40PM -0500, "S.Çağlar Onur" wrote: > Hi Youquan & Greg, > > > On May 26, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Youquan Song wrote: > > >>> 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 :)) > > > > Hi Caglar, > > > > What's the microcode version? Get by "dmesg | grep microcode" if you > > success boot other version of kernel. > > Can you try to disable C-state(C6) in BIOS before your boot 2.6.27? > > First of all I'm really sorry that it took really long time to reply this mail as I was waiting Dell to send a loaner machine to us. This morning I've got the hardware and following patch solved the boot problem that I was observing, Greg could you consider adding that to 2.6.27-stable tree? > > commit a0bf284bfedd6dc95bbee7ebf5ccf3b5f753a008
No problem, now queued up.
thanks,
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