On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 23:00 +0000, Andrew Nelless wrote:
> On Sat, February 24, 2007 11:09 am, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > Presumably this regression was caused by the ACPI merge. Are you able to
> > capture the dmesg output from the 2.6.20-rc1 boot? netconsole might be
> > useful here, thanks.
> >
>
> I've confirmed a few things:
>
> 1) 2.6.21-rc1 actually will boot intermittently.
> 2) pci=noacpi always allows 2.6.21-rc1 to boot.
> 2) 2.6.20 always boots.
> 3) There doesn't seem to be a pattern (that I can tell) between booting and
> not booting,
> although it'll now boot more often than not (It seemed very much t'other way
> around yesterday)
> 4) When 2.6.21-rc1 doesn't boot ('Boot'? Am i using the right term here?
> hmm...) nothing is
> sent across netconsole at all.
> 5) Netconsole is useful.
>
> I've uploaded all the dmesg output i've managed to capture here:
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anelless/linux/2.6.21-rc1/
>
> > (You get added to the post-2.6.20 regression list, so you'll be hearing
> > from us quite a lot for the next month. Sorry ;))
> >
>
> Lucky me :)
How about booting with just vga=normal?
Tony
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