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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:25:35 -0700
From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Subject: Re: Config NO_BOOTMEM breaks my amd64 box
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On 03/30/2010 11:47 PM, James Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> On 03/30/2010 09:49 PM, James Morris wrote:
>>> Please make NO_BOOTMEM default to n, at least for amd64, where I've found 
>>> that it leads to all kinds of strange, undebuggable boot hangs and errors 
>>> (with relatively current Fedora development userland).
>>
>> Have you tested it with the latest fixes that are now in Linus' tree (-rc3)?
> 
> Yes, it was happening with -rc3.

please send out bootlog if possible.

BTW please try
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-2.6-yinghai.git

Thanks

Yinghai