Re: [BUG] no boot with 2.6.21-rc3 and later

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>]

Thanks for narrowing it down, I'm adding John to cc:.

On Wednesday 21 March 2007, Bob Tracy wrote:
> I originally wrote:
> > Platform is a Dell CPxJ 650GT notebook.  Attempts to boot 2.6.21-rc3
> > and -rc4 produce the following console output:
> > 
> > (apparently normal boot)
> > ...
> > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> > ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> > PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
> > PIIX4: chipset revision 1
> > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> >     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> >     ide1: BM-DMA at 0x0868-0x086f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> > (hangs here)
> > 
> > The next two lines of output for 2.6.21-rc2 and earlier are:
> > Probing IDE interface ide0...
> > hda: TOSHIBA MK3017GAP, ATA DISK drive
> 
> After nine iterations of git-bisect --> compile --> reboot over the past
> two days, the commit that caused this problem has been identified.
> 
> 6bb74df481223731af6c7e0ff3adb31f6442cfcd is first bad commit
> commit 6bb74df481223731af6c7e0ff3adb31f6442cfcd
> Author: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
> Date:   Mon Mar 5 00:30:50 2007 -0800
> 
>     [PATCH] clocksource init adjustments (fix bug #7426)
> 
>     This patch resolves the issue found here:
>     http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7426
> 
>     The basic summary is:
>     (omitted for brevity)
> 
>     Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
>     Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
>     Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
>     Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
>     Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>     Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> 
> :040000 040000 b259cf01f6ad791a0f58c9956e6e0111cb9aa310 0e8fbf31c0bae9ca6039fc7781b53c12f7a67592 M      arch
> :040000 040000 19bd5cf3c55c6b7947ec66b68eab643c99f15bb8 ef8fda0445287e34eeb466985901ca64191b6539 M      drivers
> :040000 040000 4f84ad7bdf509ed83efd95d174796f1a6a948b0e 51624663be2fdce8aaeb3b49e188520aa3735d90 M      include
> :040000 040000 ef82986d4590fed84b9a128da90e65f7e43f43a9 778d0cf7273d7514b436ca4e91a6948f34694972 M      kernel
> 
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