Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261973AbUA0FoY (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:44:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262048AbUA0FoY (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:44:24 -0500 Received: from user-119ahgg.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.70.16]:57240 "EHLO mail.home") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261973AbUA0FoW (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 00:44:22 -0500 From: Eric To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - SOLVED Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 23:43:35 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.94 Cc: stoffel@lucent.com, ak@muc.de, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, bunk@fs.tum.de, cova@ferrara.linux.it, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200401232253.08552.eric@cisu.net> <200401261326.09903.eric@cisu.net> <20040126115614.351393f2.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040126115614.351393f2.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200401262343.35633.eric@cisu.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1658 Lines: 38 On Monday 26 January 2004 13:56, Andrew Morton wrote: > Eric wrote: > > On Monday 26 January 2004 00:00, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > "John Stoffel" wrote: > > > > Sure, the darn thing wouldn't boot, it kept Oopsing with the > > > > test_wp_bit oops (that I just posted more details about). > > > > > > Does this fix the test_wp_bit oops? > > > > Yes, it fixes my test_wp_bit oops. But NOW, when booting 2.6.2-rc1-mm3 > > (which i pathed removing -funit-at-a-time and the wp_but oops patch) I > > get an oops derefrencing null pointer in blkdev_reread_part. > > It is likely that this can be fixed by reverting > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2-rc1/2. >6.2-rc1-mm3/broken-out/md-06-allow-partitioning.patch - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ YES. I finally have a working 2.6.2-rc1-mm3 booted kernel. Lets review folks--- reverted -funit-at-a-time patched test_wp_bit so exception tables are sorted sooner reverted md-partition patch Thank you very much for your help. I hope we all learned something today. I definatly did. ------------------------- Eric Bambach Eric at cisu dot net ------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/