From: Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>
To: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
x86@kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [bisected, regression] 3.17-rc2 kernel doesn't load initramfs with EFI stub boot
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 14:59:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1409597968.1055.1.camel@kepstin.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140901184208.GA3001@console-pimps.org>
On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 19:42 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug, at 12:02:37PM, Calvin Walton wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > When I tried booting the 3.17-rc2 kernel on my Lenovo ThinkPad
> > T440p
> > (16gb ram) via Gummiboot/EFI stub, it failed with an error saying
> > that
> > it could not mount root. A little investigation revealed that the
> > initramfs did not load, so mounting by filesystem UUID failed.
> > I've bisected the change, and it has led me to:
> >
> > 4bf7111f50167133a71c23530ca852a41355e739 is the first bad commit
> > commit 4bf7111f50167133a71c23530ca852a41355e739
> > Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
> > Date: Sat Jun 14 12:23:41 2014 -0700
> >
> > x86/efi: Support initrd loaded above 4G
>
> Thanks for reporting this. Could you try the below commit and see
> whether it fixes things for you?
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/4524
With Yinghai Lu's patch from the linked message, my ThinkPad is now
booting correctly. (Admittedly using a rather "small" 7MB intramfs - I
don't have any >2GB ones handy).
Feel free to take a
Tested-by: Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>
Thanks!
--
Calvin Walton <calvin.walton@kepstin.ca>
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2014-08-27 16:02 [bisected, regression] 3.17-rc2 kernel doesn't load initramfs with EFI stub boot Calvin Walton
2014-09-01 18:42 ` Matt Fleming
2014-09-01 18:59 ` Calvin Walton [this message]
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