Re: 2.6.20.7 locking up hard on boot

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Sat Apr 21 2007 - 06:36:39 EST


On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:34:20PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:30:59PM -0500, Marcos Pinto wrote:
> > Yes, I just tried 2.6.20.3 with ACPI enabled and it booted perfectly.
> > I'm hoping this means you know what's wrong? :-)
>
> Can you do a 'git bisect' on the versions between 2.6.20.3 and 2.6.20.7
> to try to find the problem patch?

Considering where it failed and that 2.6.20.3 worked, I would be
extremely surprised if this wasn't one more report of
adjust-legacy-ide-resource-setting.patch breaking booting (and we
already have confirmed reports for this)...

But AFAIK we still don't understand how this patch managed to break
things.

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

cu
Adrian

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