Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

Matt Fleming
2014-09-23T07:37:45Z

On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 00:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sep 22, 2014 11:57 PM, "Matt Fleming" <matt.fleming@intel.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Linus, what are the particulars of your Sony machine? Are you
> running
> > with secure boot on? Is is a regular grub2/Fedora machine?
>
> It's a regular fedora 20 install with grub2, yes, and set for EFI boot
> rather than legacy bios. But I don't play around with signing stuff,
> so it ends up saying "booting in insecure mode" at startup (our
> something like that, I'm not at the machine right now).

OK that's good at least. There seems to be a pattern here, booting with
Fedora's grub2.

> > Reverting this is obviously the way to go, but it would be useful to
> > diagnose this failure some more - there's clearly a gap in my
> testing.
>
> It literally just reboots after loading the kernel, so not a lot to go
> on. I can try things out if you want to, though.

Thanks! I'll let you know. I'm gonna try and recreate the problem here
first since this early boot debugging is a massive PITA.