Until now, all 2.5.59-based kernels (2.5.59 vanilla, 2.5.59 + vmlinux
patch, 2.5.59-mm[1-8]) hang very early in the boot-process on my system,
right after 'Uncompressing Linux...'
I am willing to try which patch between 2.5.58 and 2.5.59 caused this,
but I can't find out how to extract these patches. If I browse the
linux-2.5 repository on the web-interface @ bitkeeper, I don't see a
message 'And with this patch-set, we've reached 2.5.58 - any patches
after this apply to 2.5.58 and will create 2.5.59 in due time'.
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/BK-usage/ seems to focus more on uploading
patches. There is something on getting the diff between two kernel
versions, but I need finer patches/revisions/changesets. I can see how
to download the initial tree, but what do I do next?
Thanks,
Jurriaan
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Jurriaan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Until now, all 2.5.59-based kernels (2.5.59 vanilla, 2.5.59 + vmlinux
> patch, 2.5.59-mm[1-8]) hang very early in the boot-process on my system,
> right after 'Uncompressing Linux...'
>
> I am willing to try which patch between 2.5.58 and 2.5.59 caused this,
> but I can't find out how to extract these patches. If I browse the
> linux-2.5 repository on the web-interface @ bitkeeper, I don't see a
> message 'And with this patch-set, we've reached 2.5.58 - any patches
> after this apply to 2.5.58 and will create 2.5.59 in due time'.
>
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/BK-usage/ seems to focus more on uploading
> patches. There is something on getting the diff between two kernel
> versions, but I need finer patches/revisions/changesets. I can see how
> to download the initial tree, but what do I do next?
>
I've been regularly snarfing the rollups from
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/testing/cset/
for this very purpose.
Over at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/x/
You will find 15 patches, spread across the lifetime of the 2.5.58->2.5.59
cycle.
If you can identify which of those patches introduced the failure...
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:07:42AM +0100, Jurriaan wrote:
> Until now, all 2.5.59-based kernels (2.5.59 vanilla, 2.5.59 + vmlinux
> patch, 2.5.59-mm[1-8]) hang very early in the boot-process on my system,
> right after 'Uncompressing Linux...'
Two suspects (from freezing boxes Ive had here) are ACPI and PNP. Try
disabling those first.
Dave
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On Thursday 06 February 2003 13:33, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:07:42AM +0100, Jurriaan wrote:
> > Until now, all 2.5.59-based kernels (2.5.59 vanilla, 2.5.59 + vmlinux
> > patch, 2.5.59-mm[1-8]) hang very early in the boot-process on my system,
> > right after 'Uncompressing Linux...'
>
> Two suspects (from freezing boxes Ive had here) are ACPI and PNP. Try
> disabling those first.
Do you have a K6-2? I know of two K6-2 400MHz boxes that freeze at the
same point with recent (2.5.58-2.5.59, maybe 2.5.57) kernels.
Ciao,
Duncan.
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 01:51:00PM +0100, Duncan Sands wrote:
> > Two suspects (from freezing boxes Ive had here) are ACPI and PNP. Try
> > disabling those first.
>
> Do you have a K6-2? I know of two K6-2 400MHz boxes that freeze at the
> same point with recent (2.5.58-2.5.59, maybe 2.5.57) kernels.
Nope. mobile P3 and mobile Athlon respectively.
Dave
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From: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:33:40PM +0000
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:07:42AM +0100, Jurriaan wrote:
> > Until now, all 2.5.59-based kernels (2.5.59 vanilla, 2.5.59 + vmlinux
> > patch, 2.5.59-mm[1-8]) hang very early in the boot-process on my system,
> > right after 'Uncompressing Linux...'
>
> Two suspects (from freezing boxes Ive had here) are ACPI and PNP. Try
> disabling those first.
>
I didn't use them. I was busy checking out where between cset-943 and
cset-944 it stopped booting, when I accidentally removed my .config
file. I recreated it from the one I posted earlier to lkml, and suddenly
all 2.5.59 kernels boot. I don't know if I'm glad it's solved or
irritated that I don't know how it was solved.
Anyway, 2.5.59-mm8 boots here just fine.
Thanks everyone!
Jurriaan
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