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

[john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 21:18 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 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


Hmmm. Are you able to capture a full dmesg? If so could you send it to
me? Also, does booting w/ "clocksource=jiffies" change the behavior?

thanks
-john