From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:30:42 +0800 Message-ID: <1172359843.4415.8.camel@daplas> References: <35472.86.7.220.119.1172237750.squirrel@wmbeta.mxes.net> <20070224030950.074f88d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <33525.86.7.220.119.1172358010.squirrel@wmbeta.mxes.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.238]:32763 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933594AbXBXX2N (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:28:13 -0500 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so849693nze for ; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:28:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <33525.86.7.220.119.1172358010.squirrel@wmbeta.mxes.net> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Nelless Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 23:00 +0000, Andrew Nelless wrote: > On Sat, February 24, 2007 11:09 am, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Presumably this regression was caused by the ACPI merge. Are you able to > > capture the dmesg output from the 2.6.20-rc1 boot? netconsole might be useful here, thanks. > > > > I've confirmed a few things: > > 1) 2.6.21-rc1 actually will boot intermittently. > 2) pci=noacpi always allows 2.6.21-rc1 to boot. > 2) 2.6.20 always boots. > 3) There doesn't seem to be a pattern (that I can tell) between booting and not booting, > although it'll now boot more often than not (It seemed very much t'other way around yesterday) > 4) When 2.6.21-rc1 doesn't boot ('Boot'? Am i using the right term here? hmm...) nothing is > sent across netconsole at all. > 5) Netconsole is useful. > > I've uploaded all the dmesg output i've managed to capture here: > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anelless/linux/2.6.21-rc1/ > > > (You get added to the post-2.6.20 regression list, so you'll be hearing > > from us quite a lot for the next month. Sorry ;)) > > > > Lucky me :) How about booting with just vga=normal? Tony