Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 06:33 -0400, trouble daemon wrote: Ben, Another option that may be worth trying is 'noapic'. Wow, that worked just fine actually on 2.6.26 stock kernel. Thanks a lot! I am curious though, what in the world changed since 2.6.18 and lower versions that might have

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-23 Thread trouble daemon
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: I'm afraid I don't know much about interrupt routing so I don't think I can get useful information out of it. That's okay, the important thing is that noapic works at least. I see that you also wrote to LKML and that

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-21 Thread trouble daemon
Ben, Another option that may be worth trying is 'noapic'. Wow, that worked just fine actually on 2.6.26 stock kernel. Thanks a lot! I am curious though, what in the world changed since 2.6.18 and lower versions that might have required noapic? I've seen the option needed by so many people on

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-21 Thread trouble daemon
BTW, I also attached the dmesg for 2.6.26 working just for reference to anyone else who might stumble upon this bug, and for your curiosity as well. ooops, forgot the attachement. Attached as promised! troubled [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 23:39 -0400, trouble daemon wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-22lenny1 Severity: important I am using a pair of Dell PowerEdg 4200's that have been working with debian since 2002 or so, 100% perfectly. However, since testing out Lenny with a 2.6.26 kernel, it

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-20 Thread trouble daemon
Ben, My guess is that something has gone wrong with interrupt routing.  Can you try adding 'acpi=noirq' to the kernel parameters? Okay, I tied acpi=noirq with the stock lenny 2.6.26 kernel, and it looks like the same exact problem still. I can capture a dmesg for that as well if you want

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 17:47 -0400, trouble daemon wrote: Ben, My guess is that something has gone wrong with interrupt routing. Can you try adding 'acpi=noirq' to the kernel parameters? Okay, I tied acpi=noirq with the stock lenny 2.6.26 kernel, and it looks like the same exact problem

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-20 Thread trouble daemon
Ok, I am currently compiling the 2.6.32 debianized kernel with the config from the lenny package. Ooops, small correction. What I meant to say was that I am compiling the 2.6.32 source from squeeze using the squeeze config in the .deb, not the lenny config. ie: it should end up effectively a

Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26

2010-06-19 Thread trouble daemon
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-22lenny1 Severity: important I am using a pair of Dell PowerEdg 4200's that have been working with debian since 2002 or so, 100% perfectly. However, since testing out Lenny with a 2.6.26 kernel, it seems that both systems panic in an unbootable fashion with