From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754533AbYDWPj1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:39:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752098AbYDWPjT (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:39:19 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:28996 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752152AbYDWPjS (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:39:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:35:47 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: "werner" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: EDD problem -- regression -- crash on booting by probing EDD Message-Id: <20080423083547.a048aaee.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <1208910044.20701@copaya.yi.org> References: <20080422142103.GA5652@auslistsprd01.us.dell.com> <1208910044.20701@copaya.yi.org> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:20:44 -0300 (GFT) werner wrote: > As I tested yesterday extensively, the problem wasn't present at 2.6.24-rc5-git6 (SYS Linux 0.17 install DVD) nor at 2.6.24-rc6-git2 (SYS 0.19) , but at 2.6.24-rc6-git8 (SYS 0.20-rc1 and 0.20-rc2) and 2.6.25 (0.21-r3). > > The whole compiled packages of these kernels still are at copaya.yi.org/tgz , but I extracted the important parts, see enclosed here. The .tar.bz2 file contains the config and the protocoll of the compilation (inclusive warning / error messages). > > As you can see, the diff between the config of 2.6.24-rc6-git2 and -git8 is nothing. That means: THE ERROR ENTERED INTO THE KERNEL BETWEEN THESE TWO GITs !! Hi, I'm a little confused. Is this supposed to be "between 2.6.25-rc6-git2 and 2.6.25-rc6-git8"? You say 2.6.24-rc6-git*. I just want to make sure of which patch interval we are looking at. And the shouting (all CAPS) isn't helping. > You may also analyze the error/warning messages. Please observe that the error message just at the beginning was already subject of another reclamation mine together with another person, and seems to have be corrected. > > I inform still about the following: As I make many experients and also install Linux often for firnds and neighbours, I see steady-steady some kernel errors, but have normally no time to track them, in the house of the persons. That error here, I saw already several times, and never it helped the edd=off option. Yesterday it happened that a friend brought a laptop (ACER Aspire 7004WSMi) to me, after he was unsuccessfull to install SYS 0.21-r3 dvd with 2.6.25-rc7 . Then I tracked that problem during about 5 hours, inclusively trying a lot of different kernel options. edd=off don't work at all, with no of the affected kernels. With 2.6.24-rc6-git2 and earlier kernels the problem didnt appear, even without edd=off option, and with the later kernels it appears, even with edd=off . With pci=off , also the recent kernels boots -- but this is useless because the system don't find any hard disk. acpi=off or hwprobe=off have no influence on that problem. > > Pls search that error and repair it ! > ********** YOU SHOULD MAKE AN EXTRA KERNEL OPTION, WHAT IGNORES THE HARDWARE AND CONTINUES TO BOOT, like pci=off, BUT WHAT DETECTS CD ROMS, HARD DISKS SATA / IDE / RAID , AND WHAT PERMITS TO USE THE COMPUTER NORMALLY AT LEAST IN VESA-FB OR FBDEV MODE !!!!! ************* > > As there has no other solution, I released last night SYS 0.21-r4 DVD , what contains both, the 2.6.25 , and alternatively 2.6.24-rc6-git2 , so that people can use them computer anyway / anyhow : ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/install/sys/ > > I can put the suggested debug, generally, in the kernel command line of my SYS install DVD. However, the person gone with his laptop so that at the moment I cannot test it; I have to wait if the same problem occurs on another computer. > > > Werner Landgraf > > Linux SYS > > http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/SYS-34168.shtml > > > > annexed: 1 file > ====================================================================================== > On 22/Abr/2008 11:21 Matt Domsch wrote .. > > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:28:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:33:32 -0300 (GFT) "werner" wrote: > > > > There is a regression in 2.6.25. > > > > > > Rafael bcc'ed. > > > > > > > Booting stops with: Probing EDD (edd=off to disable) message. > > > > > > > > It dont work the kernel boot parameter edd=off . With pci=off the computer > > continues to boot, but later it dont find hard disks etc. > > > > > > Tim and Matt cc'ed. > > > > > > > Thats happening on 2.6.25 definitive, but was verified to go back until 2.6.24-rc6-git8, > > but it wasnt yet at 2.6.24-rc6-git2 which worked correctly. > > > > > > > > > > hm, that's a nice narrow window. Unfortunately for the next few days I > > > can't personally get in and find out what we changed during it. > > > > I've scanned the diff between these, and can't see anything that would > > obviously cause a problem. Nothing that touches the EDD codepath > > directly at least. I'll be curious to see the additional initcall > > debug data. > > > > -- > > Matt Domsch > > Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO > > linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux > --- ~Randy