From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jes Sorensen Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:57:04 +0000 Subject: Re: [Fedora-ia64-list] kernel 2.6.16-1.2097_FC6 unbootable on Itanium Message-Id: List-Id: References: <442AB6DD.4020800@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <442AB6DD.4020800@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Tony" = Luck, Tony writes: >> I also tried yesterday's snapshot 2.6.16-git17 on my tiger4, it >> doesn't boot :-( >> >> So far we have reports on: >> >> (1) 2.6.16.1 doesn't boot on altix (2) 2.6.16-git17 doesn't boot on >> tiger4 (3) Jes's strange .section causing some hangs. Tony> Tiger still boots with my release tree (just has seven patches Tony> that haven't been sent to Linus yet, including Russ' fix for my Tony> merge goof that created item "3" above). I haven't pulled in Tony> from Linus in about three days, so I'm about 458 commits behind Tony> the bleeding edge. So a "git bisect" between Linus head and the Tony> point where I last merged (commit 64bc0430) might yield the Tony> problem (for Ken's tiger boot issue). Tony, Please note that if I compile the kernel on a box with an old installation and old toolchain the kernel boots, same source tree built on a system with a new installation and it doesn't boot. Cheers, Jes