On Wed, 27 Aug, at 12:02:37PM, Calvin Walton wrote: > Hi all, > > When I tried booting the 3.17-rc2 kernel on my Lenovo ThinkPad T440p > (16gb ram) via Gummiboot/EFI stub, it failed with an error saying that > it could not mount root. A little investigation revealed that the > initramfs did not load, so mounting by filesystem UUID failed. > > A video of the failed boot is available here, if you're curious: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOHTvg8Tico > > I've bisected the change, and it has led me to: > > 4bf7111f50167133a71c23530ca852a41355e739 is the first bad commit > commit 4bf7111f50167133a71c23530ca852a41355e739 > Author: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Sat Jun 14 12:23:41 2014 -0700 > > x86/efi: Support initrd loaded above 4G > > For boot efi kernel directly without bootloader. > If the kernel support XLF_CAN_BE_LOADED_ABOVE_4G, we should > not limit initrd under hdr->initrd_add_max. > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx> > > This commit reverts cleanly on top of 3.17-rc2, and the resulting > kernel boots correctly. Thanks for reporting this. Could you try the below commit and see whether it fixes things for you? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.efi/4524 -- Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-efi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
