From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755636Ab1KVT33 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:29:29 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:41060 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754656Ab1KVT31 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:29:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:30:31 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Bob Tracy Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , kernel list Subject: Re: 3.2-rc2 regression: floppy driver breaks boot Message-ID: <20111122193030.GA2164@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20111122111405.GA28215@elf.ucw.cz> <20111122142121.GB2013@gherkin.frus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111122142121.GB2013@gherkin.frus.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue 2011-11-22 08:21:21, Bob Tracy wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:14:06PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > 3.2-rc1..rc2 fail to boot, due to some warn-on in block layer. It > > seems that floppy driver is responsible. > > > > I'll try to turn the floppy driver off and see what happens. Without floppy support my x60 boot. iwlwifi driver (CONFIG_IWLWIFI_LEGACY=y) went crazy after hibernation, but thats separate issue. > > Seems like floppy driver has no maintianer :-(. > > Might be my issue as well. I've got an old AMD K6-III/450 system with > two floppy drives. When booting 3.2-rc2 (didn't try "-rc1"), the system > switches video modes (VESA FB console), and then hangs/panics. No > further info available because the panic happens too early for syslog to > record it, and the console goes blank at the time of the mode switch: > there's nothing on the screen I might transcribe manually. 3.1-final Try turning off floppy support. That helped for me. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html