From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751081AbWGCUgc (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:36:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751104AbWGCUgc (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:36:32 -0400 Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk ([195.112.4.54]:21254 "EHLO smtp.nildram.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751081AbWGCUgb (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 16:36:31 -0400 From: Alistair John Strachan To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm6 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:36:55 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060703030355.420c7155.akpm@osdl.org> <200607032056.28556.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <20060703131752.9eaf6c9b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060703131752.9eaf6c9b.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200607032136.55259.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 03 July 2006 21:17, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:56:28 +0100 > > Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > On Monday 03 July 2006 20:39, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 20:27:21 +0100 > > > > > > Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > > > On Monday 03 July 2006 11:03, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.1 > > > > >7/2. 6.17 -mm6/ > > > > > > > > Doesn't boot reliably as an x86-64 kernel on my X2 system, 3/4 times > > > > it oopses horribly. Is there some way to supress an oops flood so I > > > > can get a decent picture of it with vga=extended? Right now I get two > > > > useless oopses after the first (probably useful) one. > > > > > > Try adding `pause_on_oops=100000' to the kernel boot command line. > > > > (Trimmed Nathan) > > > > Helped somewhat, but I'm still missing a bit at the top. > > > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/oops-20060703/ > > That is irritating. This should get us more info: Indeed, thanks. Try the same URL again, I've uploaded 3,4,5 from a couple of reboots. I still think I'm missing something at the top, but 3 is the earliest I could snap. -- Cheers, Alistair. Final year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.