Re: 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot

Dieter Ries
2009-01-11T15:42:21Z

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Ingo Molnar schrieb:
> * Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Ingo Molnar schrieb:
>>> * Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I just pulled 2.6.29-rc1, ran oldconfig with defaults and built it.
>>>> When I try to boot it, that kind of works until init should start. Then
>>>> nothing happens. I tried with init=/bin/bash, which sometimes works, and
>>>> sometimes gets me a bash without the prompt flashing.
>>>>
>>>> I captured the output with netconsole, but I cannot see a problem there.
>>>> It is attached.
>>>>
>>>> My config is also attached.
>>>>
>>>> The machine:
>>>>
>>>> Lenovo Thinkpad T60
>>>> Core2Duo 2GHz
>>>>
>>>> Gentoo 64bit
>>>>
>>>> Everything worked fine with 83bc66f, which was my last pull.
>>>>
>>>> What else should I provide for debugging that?
>>> hm, there's no 83bc66f in Linus's tree.
>> Sorry, thats because I applied Timo Hoenigs patch for the fingerprint
>> reader. So the right commit where it worked is 6680598.
>>
>> Before pulling today, I reverted that patch, to avoid conflicts, so I
>> guess it should not matter.
>
> in the 6680598..v2.6.29-rc1 window there's more than 3000 commits: there
> were libata and IDE changes, x86 changes, cpumask changes, ACPI changes
> and more. Any of those categories could produce such error symptoms as
> your box is showing.
>
> Unless you can see some particular badness in the kernel messages
> (something that changed to the last working version) that narrows it down
> to some subsystem, i suspect this would have to be bisected ...

I am starting to bisect now, will report back when I found something.

>
> Ingo
>

cu
Dieter

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