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SubjectRe: Regression: boot failure on AMD Elan TS-5500
Sean Young wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 06:37:12AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
>> Rusty Russell wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday 16 June 2008 22:11:39 Sean Young wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> The symptons are either a crash or reboot on booting the kernel. No
>>>> printk's have occurred yet -- even with early printk on.
>>>>
>>>> 2.6.15 worked on this board however current does not. I've bisected it to:
>>>>
>>>> commit a24e785111a32ccb7cebafd24b1b1cb474ea8e5d
>>>> Author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>>>> Date: Sun Oct 21 16:41:35 2007 -0700
>>>>
>>>> i386: paravirt boot sequence
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Sean,
>>>
>>> Thanks for tracking this down. Can we try reverting this in pieces to
>>> see exactly what the cause was?
>>>
>>> 1) Revert arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_32.S
>>> 2) If that doesn't fix it, Try removing the 8 lines which were added to
>>> arch/x86/kernel/head_32.S
>>>
>>>
>> And the arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_32.c change too, just in case...
>>
>
> Reverting only head_32.S makes the problem go away. I didn't try any other
> changes.
>
>
>>> I assume this is CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n?
>>>
>
> Indeed.
>
>
>> What bootloader does this platform use? I wonder if it's setting things
>> up in an unexpected way?
>>
>
> It's syslinux. That must be the culprit, considering the change to head_32.S.
>
> I'm digging in syslinux right now.

Weird. That change has been in there a fairly long time now, and lots of
people have successfully used syslinux to boot it in that time. Must be
some specific combination of factors on your platform.

I would guess the KEEP_SEGMENTS flag is being set for some reason, but
it's hard to imagine how, unless there's some memory corruption going on.

J


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