On Sat, February 24, 2007 11:09 am, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:35:50 -0000 (GMT) "Andrew" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> 2.6.21-rc1 fails to boot on my machine. As soon as I switch >> from grub the screen turns and remains black with no sign of Tux or any output. >> >> I've run a git-bisect between 2.6.20 (which works fine) and >> 2.6.21-rc1 and found the first bad commit to be >> #59b8175c771040afcd4ad67022b0cc80c216b866 which seems bizarre >> to me since this is a mostly an ARM commit. >> >> I haven't tried to revert this commit because frankly I don't >> know where to go from there with a multi-parent commit. >> >> I'm running on on a Asus A8N-VM CSM motherboard with a single >> core AMD64 processor, with a nVidia GPU in the PCI-ex slot using the standard VESA frame >> buffer driver. >> >> Relevant config's can be found here: >> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anelless/linux/2.6.21-rc1/ >> >> > > and, later, > >> I have just discovered 2.6.21-rc1 boots with >> pci=noacpi ... > > Presumably this regression was caused by the ACPI merge. Are you able to > capture the dmesg output from the 2.6.20-rc1 boot? netconsole might be useful here, thanks. > > (You get added to the post-2.6.20 regression list, so you'll be hearing > from us quite a lot for the next month. Sorry ;)) > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html