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SubjectRe: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere EP)
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Hi Greg,

On Nov 18, 2010, at 4:54 PM, Greg KH wrote:

> 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.

Umh please drop that patch for now, seems like I mixed my kernel configs and compiled/tested a 64 bit one (by the way 64bit kernel boots fine) but 32bit one still fails with the same error. I'll try to bisect...

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h


Best,
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S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@cs.princeton.edu>

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