Re: early boot lockup with 2.6.23-rc1

From: Mikko Rapeli
Date: Fri Aug 10 2007 - 12:33:41 EST


On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 03:26:57PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Mikko Rapeli wrote:
> > As I could guess from the changelogs, 2.6.22-git2 works and anything
> > after 2.6.22-git3 doesn't.
>
> Okay, here is something to try. Don't try this unless you haven't
> already tested 2.6.23-rc2, since there is a bug that was fixed in
> 2.6.23-rc2 that might be the cause of your problem (you can test that
> easily by specifying edd=skipmbr on the kernel command line.)

Nice, 2.6.23-rc2 with edd=skipmbr boots just fine.

> Anyway, if that doesn't solve it:
>
> In main() in arch/i386/boot/main.c, please comment out everything from
> query_mca() to query_edd(), inclusively.

This didn't help.

-Mikko
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