Re: boot ok,but reboot hang, from 2.6.10 to 2.6.14

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Oct 28 2005 - 09:40:18 EST




On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Boxer Gnome wrote:
>
> This only happens in reboot from linux kernel within 2.6.10-2.6.14.
>
> I tested the older kernel version from 2.6.8 to 2.6.14,and 2.4.31 .I
> found the 2.6.8 and the 2.6.9,2.4.31 worked well without above
> reboot_from_linux_with_hang_after_POST,and the 2.6.10-2.6.14 all have
> this.

Can you try to pinpoint when it started happening more closely?

The differences between 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 are pretty big, and it would be
much better if you can pinpoint it to a smaller range.

You can find three "release candidates" for 2.6.10 in

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing

and if you first test 2.6.10-rc2, and then depending on whether that
already has the bug or not, you'd test 2.6.10-rc1 or 2.6.10-rc2. That
would help pinpoint the difference to between two particular -rc kernels,
which would be much better.

After that, I might end up still asking you to test one or two daily
snapshots, but it may be that pinpointing when your reboot troubles
started to just the -rc kernel might be good enough.

Linus
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