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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.37-git17 virtual IO boot failure
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Hi,

> FWIW, I looked at Anton's logs, and I don't think the boot failed, per
> se. I think it may have timed out (but not positive on that). I was
> able to boot 2.6.27-git17 on the exact same box, albeit it locks up
> at a later point (the sd abort I e-mailed about in a follow-up).

This fail bisects down to the VPHN (shared processor affinity) patch.
I've got some fixes on the way.

Anton