Re: Upgraded from 3.4 to 3.5.1 kernel: machine does not boot

[Jesper Juhl]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2012, Justin Piszcz wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTH-6F
> Distro: Debian Testing x86_64
> 
> >From 3.4 -> 3.5.1 on x86_64 make oldconfig and a few minor changes and the
> machine attempts to boot but hangs at the filesystem mounting part of the
> boot process.
> 
> Picture of where it stops working (a little burry but readable)
> http://home.comcast.net/~jpiszcz/20120810/3.5-kernel-hangs.jpg
> 
> Kernel config 3.4 (working)
> http://home.comcast.net/~jpiszcz/20120810/config-3.4.txt
> 
> Kernel config 3.5.1 (hangs)
> http://home.comcast.net/~jpiszcz/20120810/config-3.5.1.txt
> 
> As you see towards the end the machine has been sitting there for 1 hour as
> that's the timeout I have the drives spindown on the 3ware card.
> 
> Any thoughts as what is wrong here?
> 
Not really, but some (rather obvious) ideas on what to try:

- Does 3.5 work? (could be that whatever broke things for you was 
introduced in 3.5.1).

- Does the latest 3.4.8 work?

- Does 3.6-rc1 (or even the latest snapshot of Linus' tree, post-rc1) 
work?

- If noone comes up with a good idea as to the cause of your troubles, you 
could try bisecting between your last working kernel and 3.5.1 to try and 
narrow it down to one (or a few) commits that are causing your trouble.

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