From: Harald Arnesen <harald@skogtun.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tobias <mailing54@plzk.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.34-rc4
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:32:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874ojd3elk.fsf@basilikum.skogtun.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004140733310.15116@i5.linux-foundation.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:46:11 -0700 (PDT)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Tobias wrote:
>> -rc4 does not boot on my MacBook v2.1. Unfortunately, I can not add much info
>> on what happens since it's all happening really fast. Last thing I can really
>> see is that KMS takes over (?), outputs a few lines which look ok, last line
>> being something about ata. Here the boot stops.
>
> The absolutely most helpful thing you could do (and it really isn't that
> complex, just somewhat time-consuming) is to do a "git bisect" to figure
> out exactly where it started.
As a non-kernel-hacker, I agree fully. "git bisect" is the best
error diagnosing tool ever invented.
I have on two occations bisected kernel problems with the help of the
kernel community, and I have really been impressed by the help I have
got.
--
Hilsen Harald.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-14 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-13 2:16 Linus Torvalds
2010-04-13 2:42 ` Justin P. mattock
2010-04-14 8:38 ` Tobias
2010-04-14 14:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-14 20:47 ` Len Brown
2010-04-14 21:05 ` Tobias
2010-04-14 21:32 ` Harald Arnesen [this message]
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