Re: 2.6.21-rc5 from fc7-rc2 problems

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Mar 31 2007 - 16:50:04 EST


On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:14:01 -0400 Stephen Clark <Stephen.Clark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have just tried booting the fc7-rc2 live cd on 2 of my laptops and it
> failed on both.
>
> Laptop 1 is an asus vbi s96f that get a panic that says exception in
> interrupt routine
> for my rtl8139.
>
> This device works fine in 2.6.20.2

That's regression #1. Are you able to take a photograph of the screen
when it has crashed? Setting the display to 50 rows would make that more
useful. (serial console would be better, but I assume that thing has
no serial port).

>
> The other laptop is a hp n5430 it fail in the ali-pata driver not being
> able to read the cdrom, timeing out
> and dropping into a bash shell telling me to tell it where the root
> filesystem is.

That's #2, I guess.

> Also it sets my hard
> drive to udma/33 when it run find at udma/66 under 2.6.20.1.

#3. Hopefully it's related to #2.

Please send the full dmesg output for 2.6.20.1 on the n5430.

> It would
> really be nice if the people makeing
> all these changes would at least keep things compatible with what they
> were before. These are regressions
> guys!

We try ;)

> This hp n5430 system works fine with 2.6.20.1.

Thanks, it helps.

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