Re: spontaneous reboots and hangs on x86_64

["Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Mariusz Kozlowski
<m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> > > > ~/linux/linux-next $ git bisect start
>> > > > fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref
>> > > > Bad HEAD - I need a symbolic ref
>> >
>> > This would indicate something wrong with your clone of linux-next.  How
>> > did you create the repository?
>> >
>> > > > - how does one bisect on linux-next?
>> >
>> > Any day's linux-next tree is a git tree like any other ...
>>
>> Hm it can be that I did something wrong ...
>
> and I did :/ I think I just started this repo in wrong way - according to linux-next FAQ.
> I'll just start from scratch then.

You need to be on a branch. If git-branch says this:

$ git branch
* (no branch)

then git will not allow you to bisect:

$ git bisect start v2.6.24 v2.6.25
fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref
Bad HEAD - I need a symbolic ref

Try first checkout out a new branch:

$ git checkout -b bisect
Switched to a new branch "bisect"

$ git bisect start v2.6.24 v2.6.25
Switched to branch "master"

Good luck!

Vegard

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