Re: v4.10-rc8 (-rc6) boot regression on Intel desktop, does not boot after cold boots, boots after reboot

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Feb 15 2017 - 12:23:16 EST


On Tue 2017-02-14 11:12:26, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2017 9:59 AM, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > >
> > > Booting to grub, then hitting ctrl-alt-del is enough to make it work.
> Ouch.
> > >
> > > It happens with current Linus' tree.
> >
> > v4.10-rc6-feb3 : broken
> > v4.9 : ok
>
> I wonder if you could bisect it now that you've figured out the rules for
> when it breaks...

I guess that's what I'll need to do. It is my main machine, so it is a
bit painful.

Anyway, it seems that "nosmp" makes it hang at similar place, but
makes it hang reliably, reboot or cold poweroff. So I guess that's
what I'll use for bisection -- should be possible to do automatically
that way.

> I don't think I've seen any similar reports, so we don't have a lot of
> clues to go by otherwise, I think.

:-(.
Pavel

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