2.6.24-rc1: NULL pointer dereference using netconsole

2007-10-24 Thread Andrew Nelless
Hi, I booted up 2.6.24-rc1 this morning [Real early over a brew ;-)] and was having a problems with multiple ~5 second hangs on SATA/drive init (Something to do with "EH" something-or-other and resets but I'll email in separately about it later unless its fixed by the time I get the chance). Anyw

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-03-04 Thread Andrew Nelless
On Mon, February 26, 2007 11:09 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > Not sure if the timer override workaround for nvidia chipsets is the > culprit, but if you want, you can choose to revert that to the previous > behavior (which is > ignoring ACPI timer override). Open > arch/x86_64/kernel/earlyqui

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-26 Thread Andrew Nelless
On Mon, February 26, 2007 12:41 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > I don't know, probably the ACPI code can now probably detect the > presence or absence of the HPET timer. > > Can you remove CONFIG_FB_VESA support from your kernel config but boot > as if you have vesafb (ie with vga=). Your machine

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-25 Thread Andrew Nelless
On Sat, February 24, 2007 11:30 pm, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > > How about booting with just vga=normal? > > > Tony > That seems to work too. I've rebooted about 20 times in a row and it hasn't done it again yet. Why would this only occur at higher modes? In the 2.6.20 dmesg log it reads "Nvidia

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Nelless
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

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Nelless
On Sat, February 24, 2007 11:09 am, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:35:50 - (GMT) "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> 2.6.21-rc1 fails to boot on my machine. As soon as I switch >> from grub the screen turns and remains black with no sign of Tux or any >> output.