Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161583AbWJDQmG (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:42:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161582AbWJDQmF (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:42:05 -0400 Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:36845 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161577AbWJDQmB (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:42:01 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2 boot failure on x86-64 From: Steve Fox To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Vivek Goyal In-Reply-To: <20061004084540.af17fee5.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20060928014623.ccc9b885.akpm@osdl.org> <20060928140124.5f7154e3.akpm@osdl.org> <1159969349.28106.64.camel@flooterbu> <20061004084540.af17fee5.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:41:59 -0500 Message-Id: <1159980119.28106.75.camel@flooterbu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 (2.6.3-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 836 Lines: 22 On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 08:45 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:42:28 -0500 > Steve Fox wrote: > > Sorry for the delay. I was finally able to perform a bisect on this. It > > turns out the patch that causes this is > > x86_64-mm-re-positioning-the-bss-segment.patch, which seems like a > > strange candidate, but sure enough I can boot to login: right up until > > that patch is applied. > > hm, that patch was merged into mainline September 29. Does mainline work? -git21 also fails with this same error. -- Steve Fox IBM Linux Technology Center - 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/