On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:01:43 +0200, "Rafael J. Wysocki" said: > On Sunday, 30 September 2007 10:50, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:26:21 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:22:20 PDT, Andrew Morton said: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc8/2.6.23-rc8-mm2/ > > > > > > Locks up hard at very early boot on my Dell Latitude - grub says loading > > > kernel, the screen clears, and we lock up before we get penguins. > > > > > > -rc8-mm1 was OK. I'm off to go bisect, figured I'd drop a heads-up. > > > > > > > It doesn't ring a bell, sorry. hpet-force-enable-on-ich34.patch is known > > to be bad, but it causes failure later in the boot than that. > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/27/322, perhaps?
Yep, that was it - I applied that one patch on top of -rc8-mm2 and it came up without complaint. That was certainly one that would make the CPU head off into the weeds very early in boot. I need to figure how how I managed to botch the git bisect - it flagged the very last commit, when the problem was commit N-1.
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