On Mon, 2014-09-01 at 19:42 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote: > On Wed, 27 Aug, at 12:02:37PM, Calvin Walton wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > When I tried booting the 3.17-rc2 kernel on my Lenovo ThinkPad > > T440p > > (16gb ram) via Gummiboot/EFI stub, it failed with an error saying > > that > > it could not mount root. A little investigation revealed that the > > initramfs did not load, so mounting by filesystem UUID failed. > > I've bisected the change, and it has led me to: > > > > 4bf7111f50167133a71c23530ca852a41355e739 is the first bad commit > > commit 4bf7111f50167133a71c23530ca852a41355e739 > > Author: Yinghai Lu <ying...@kernel.org> > > Date: Sat Jun 14 12:23:41 2014 -0700 > > > > x86/efi: Support initrd loaded above 4G > > Thanks for reporting this. Could you try the below commit and see > whether it fixes things for you? > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/4524
With Yinghai Lu's patch from the linked message, my ThinkPad is now booting correctly. (Admittedly using a rather "small" 7MB intramfs - I don't have any >2GB ones handy). Feel free to take a Tested-by: Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca> Thanks! -- Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
