Tim Gardner wrote: > Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 17:47 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: >>> On 06/21/2007 05:04 PM, Tim Gardner wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Commit e9e2cdb412412326c4827fc78ba27f410d837e6e breaks boot on a Dell >>>> E1501 unless 'acpi=off' is specified (also tried nolapic and nohpet but >>>> it made no substantive difference). This laptop is an 'AMD Turion(tm) 64 >>>> X2 Mobile Technology TL-50' CPU, but its booting 32 bit SMP (make >>>> defconfig). No kernel built after this commit works for this platform. >>>> >>>> There is no crash output, it just wedges after 'NET: Registered protocol >>>> family 2'. >>>> >>>> How can I debug this problem? >>> That'll be fun. >>> >>> That's: >>> >>> [PATCH] clockevents: i386 drivers >>> >>> [Author cc: added] >> I'm going nuts on this. >> >> Tim, >> >> 1.) are you booting a 32bit or a 64 bit kernel ? >> >> 2.) Can you please try 2.6.22-rc5 + >> http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc5/patch-2.6.22-rc5-hrt1.patch >> whether this makes any difference >> >> Thanks, >> >> tglx >> > > Thomas, > > Your patch (large though it is) did not make any outward difference. As > usual, adding 'acpi=off' allows it to boot. > > rtg Perhaps I was too hasty. Adding 'acpi=off' did not allow it to boot. The IDE drive was detected, but I did not see any partitions detected. Eventually it dropped to the initrd shell when it could not find a root filesystem. Anyways, this is likely a side issue. rtg -- Tim Gardner tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxx - 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
