Re: [stable] Boot failure with 2.6.27.46 on Xeon E5620 (Westmere EP)

From: Youquan Song
Date: Wed May 26 2010 - 01:53:13 EST


> > I can't think of any known issues in 2.6.27 that can lead to this kind
> > of boot failure on WSM-EP. Caglar, It will be nice if you can do git
> > bisect between working and non-working kernels.
>
> Sure, I'll try to boot those with plain 2.6.27 to see but please note that it's going to be little time consuming. For each one I have to create a custom boot image for them to download and test (a.k.a. don't expect to hear from me soon :))

Hi Caglar,

What's the microcode version? Get by "dmesg | grep microcode" if you
success boot other version of kernel.
Can you try to disable C-state(C6) in BIOS before your boot 2.6.27?

Thanks
-Youquan
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