From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932174AbWF2TFY (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:05:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932242AbWF2TFX (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:05:23 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:46044 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932174AbWF2TFW (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:05:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:05:18 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Jesse Brandeburg" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm4 Message-Id: <20060629120518.e47e73a9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <4807377b0606291053g602f3413gb3a60d1432a62242@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060629013643.4b47e8bd.akpm@osdl.org> <4807377b0606291053g602f3413gb3a60d1432a62242@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.17; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:53:03 -0700 "Jesse Brandeburg" 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