Re: 2.6.26-rc9-git9 doesn't boot on Macintel

[Justin Mattock]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Jack Howarth <howarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Justin,
>    Could you try booting either the current i386 or x86_64
> boot.iso from fedora development. If you select the linux rescue
> mode, it will likely crash before the kernel fully loads. However,
> it would be useful to be able to see if Fedoras config for
> 2.6.26 behaves the same way. That is do you see a kernel panic
> or what I see which is a system freeze. Thanks in advance.
>            Jack
> ps Does vga=794 work okay under 2.6.26 for you? That kernel option
> works fine for me under 2.6.25.10 to provide a higher resolution
> display (so that I can see more of the boot messages). However under
> 2.6.26, vga=794 just shows a black screen. Weird.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:39:55PM +0000, Justin Mattock wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Jack Howarth <howarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> YH,
>> >>   I am wondering if it might be worthwhile for me to
>> >> try the various rc releases of 2.6.26 (starting with rc1-git1)
>> >> to see if I can identify at what point 2.6.26 was broken
>> >> with regards to booting on my MacBook Pro? In case that
>> >> would point us towards the checkin of a specific set of
>> >> patches as the problem.
>> >
>> > try 2.6.26-rc1,..rc2
>> >
>> > YH
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>> O.K. I tried MMCONFIG and it seems
>> to be giving me a: kernel panic
>> VFS: cannot open device sda1 or unkown block (0,0)
>>
>> from what I remember I noticed this as far back as 2.6.22
>>
>> --
>> Justin P. Mattock
>

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