Re: 2.6.17-mm4

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:53:03 -0700
"Jesse Brandeburg" <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com> wrote:

> can't boot 2.6.17-mm4 on x86_64 Intel 7520 platform.
> instant reboot after printing:
>   Booting 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.17-mm4-jesse)'
> 
> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-mm4-jesse ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb hdc=none video=atyfb:102
> 4x768M-32@70 console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty1 panic=30
>    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x199883]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.17-mm4-jesse.img
>    [Linux-initrd @ 0x37efd000, 0xf2da8 bytes]
> 
> ie no kernel output

Your .config works OK on my x86_64 box.  Wanna swap? ;)

> where should i start to debug?  I can do a bisect pretty easily too
> using git if necessary.

That would be great, thanks.  Your options are to do a git bisect using

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/smurf/linux-trees.git#v2.6.17-mm4

(Beware that the mm-to-git trees have had a few problem reports and I'm not
aware of anyone previously using them for a bisect).

or to install quilt and use
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt