Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:21:03 -0500 | From | Matt Domsch <> | Subject | Re: EDD problem -- regression -- crash on booting by probing EDD |
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:28:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:33:32 -0300 (GFT) "werner" <werner@copaya.yi.org> wrote: > > There is a regression in 2.6.25. > > Rafael bcc'ed. > > > Booting stops with: Probing EDD (edd=off to disable) message. > > > > It dont work the kernel boot parameter edd=off . With pci=off the computer continues to boot, but later it dont find hard disks etc. > > Tim and Matt cc'ed. > > > Thats happening on 2.6.25 definitive, but was verified to go back until 2.6.24-rc6-git8, but it wasnt yet at 2.6.24-rc6-git2 which worked correctly. > > > > hm, that's a nice narrow window. Unfortunately for the next few days I > can't personally get in and find out what we changed during it.
I've scanned the diff between these, and can't see anything that would obviously cause a problem. Nothing that touches the EDD codepath directly at least. I'll be curious to see the additional initcall debug data.
-- Matt Domsch Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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