Re: boot ok,but reboot hang, from 2.6.10 to 2.6.14

[Boxer Gnome <aiko.sex@gmail.com>]

2005/10/28, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>:
>
>
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Boxer Gnome wrote:
> >
> > This only happens in reboot from linux kernel within 2.6.10-2.6.14.
> >
> > I tested the older kernel version from 2.6.8 to 2.6.14,and 2.4.31 .I
> > found the 2.6.8 and the 2.6.9,2.4.31 worked well without above
> > reboot_from_linux_with_hang_after_POST,and the 2.6.10-2.6.14 all have
> > this.
>
> Can you try to pinpoint when it started happening more closely?
>
> The differences between 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 are pretty big, and it would be
> much better if you can pinpoint it to a smaller range.
>
> You can find three "release candidates" for 2.6.10 in
>
>        http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing
>
> and if you first test 2.6.10-rc2, and then depending on whether that
> already has the bug or not, you'd test 2.6.10-rc1 or 2.6.10-rc2. That
> would help pinpoint the difference to between two particular -rc kernels,
> which would be much better.
>
> After that, I might end up still asking you to test one or two daily
> snapshots, but it may be that pinpointing when your reboot troubles
> started to just the -rc kernel might be good enough.
>
>                Linus
>
I tested the 2.6.10-rc1 and 2.6.10-rc2,the 2.6.10-rc1 rebooted ok,but
the 2.6.10-rc2 has that problem.

Then I test the snapshot
2.6.10-rc2-bk1,2.6.10-rc2-bk4,2.6.10-rc2-bk8,they all have this reboot
hang.

SO,I think the 2.6.10-rc1 is the last worked ok version.



Thanks