From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Fox Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2 boot failure on x86-64 Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:41:59 -0500 Message-ID: <1159980119.28106.75.camel@flooterbu> References: <20060928014623.ccc9b885.akpm@osdl.org> <20060928140124.5f7154e3.akpm@osdl.org> <1159969349.28106.64.camel@flooterbu> <20061004084540.af17fee5.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Vivek Goyal Return-path: Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:36845 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161577AbWJDQmB (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:42:01 -0400 To: Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20061004084540.af17fee5.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 08:45 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:42:28 -0500 > Steve Fox wrote: > > Sorry for the delay. I was finally able to perform a bisect on this. It > > turns out the patch that causes this is > > x86_64-mm-re-positioning-the-bss-segment.patch, which seems like a > > strange candidate, but sure enough I can boot to login: right up until > > that patch is applied. > > hm, that patch was merged into mainline September 29. Does mainline work? -git21 also fails with this same error. -- Steve Fox IBM Linux Technology Center