On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:19:08AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Xudong Guan wrote: > > On 13:26(+0200) Tue 24 Jul, Borislav Petkov wrote: > >> 2.6.23-rc1 won't boot on my Asus M6N laptop and the last thing it shows > >> after loading > >> grub is "No setup signature found...," which, imho, comes from > >> arch/i386/boot/header.S. I tried printing out the value of setup_sig like > >> so > > > > I hitted the same error message with v2.6.23-rc1-171-ge4903fb. > > No problem with v2.6.21-3770-g01e73be. > > Seems there has been some cleanup of the i386/boot code. > > Anyone can give a quick clue, or should I do a bisect?
I just finished bisecting between v2.6.22..v2.6.23-rc1 (13 kernels compiled, whew...) and Peter you are right, here's the evidoer: 4fd06960f120e02e9abc802a09f9511c400042a5 is first bad commit commit 4fd06960f120e02e9abc802a09f9511c400042a5 Author: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed Jul 11 12:18:56 2007 -0700 Use the new x86 setup code for i386 This patch hooks the new x86 setup code into the Makefile machinery. It also adapts boot/tools/build.c to a two-file (as opposed to three-file) universe, and simplifies it substantially. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :040000 040000 6560eb5b7e40d93813276544bced8c478f9067f5 fe5f90d9ca08e526559815789175602ba2c51743 M arch > The bisect will almost guaranteed show a change at the change to the new > setup code. The message means that the setup code wasn't loaded > correctly into memory; the big question is *why*. > What distro/version of grub are you running? Debian unstable > I'm wondering if there are > some old version of grub out there which did the "load four sectors" > way-anciently-obsolete crap; the other possibility that comes to mind is > setting up the stack in an invalid manner. grub version: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:18:17:27:-> apt-cache show grub Package: grub Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 708 Maintainer: Grub Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.97-29 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5) Suggests: grub-doc, mdadm Filename: pool/main/g/grub/grub_0.97-29_i386.deb Size: 366884 MD5sum: 2da7a5942db06eaba046dff4615bcce9 SHA1: 7f4da793da209d011ce94fceebaebe0e5f08790f SHA256: 2596782c08f1f7365e9935f687fef74c67d8702503188f22448db9f0ac98e18e Description: GRand Unified Bootloader ... so any ideas/test patches for debugging this are welcome. -- Regards/Gruß, Boris. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/