Messages in this thread | | | From | Harald Arnesen <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.34-rc4 | Date | Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:32:07 +0200 |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Tobias wrote:
>> -rc4 does not boot on my MacBook v2.1. Unfortunately, I can not add much info >> on what happens since it's all happening really fast. Last thing I can really >> see is that KMS takes over (?), outputs a few lines which look ok, last line >> being something about ata. Here the boot stops. > > The absolutely most helpful thing you could do (and it really isn't that > complex, just somewhat time-consuming) is to do a "git bisect" to figure > out exactly where it started.
As a non-kernel-hacker, I agree fully. "git bisect" is the best error diagnosing tool ever invented.
I have on two occations bisected kernel problems with the help of the kernel community, and I have really been impressed by the help I have got. -- Hilsen Harald.
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