Re: Memory probing fails after 2.6.30 (bisected)

[Bryan Donlan]

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Anders Eriksson <aeriksson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx said:
>> whole boot log with debug with boot command line?
>>
>> > I can produce a pic of the dmesg for the fingered commit of needed.
>> boot that with earlyprintk=vga please.
>
> I managed to pull this one from the failing boot.
> Does it help?
>
> Linux version 2.6.30-rc2-00450-g8ecee46 (root@korven) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Gentoo 4.3.2-r3 p1.6, pie-10.1.5) ) #21 SMP Tue Jan 5 10:45:52 CET 2010
[...]
> EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 8:5.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 324k freed
> EXT3 FS on sda5, internal journal

Looks like the boot succeeded, at least long enough to mount the root
fs. Assuming you're not using bootsplash or something, you should have
seen something. Are you sure this is the log from the failed boot? If
it didn't make it to userspace, it won't leave anything in kern.log.
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