Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933580AbXBXW5l (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:57:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933581AbXBXW5l (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:57:41 -0500 Received: from mxout-03.mxes.net ([216.86.168.178]:1821 "EHLO mxout-03.mxes.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933580AbXBXW5k (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:57:40 -0500 Message-ID: <33524.86.7.220.119.1172357859.squirrel@wmbeta.mxes.net> In-Reply-To: <20070224030950.074f88d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <35472.86.7.220.119.1172237750.squirrel@wmbeta.mxes.net> <20070224030950.074f88d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:57:39 -0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc1: framebuffer/console boot failure From: "Andrew Nelless" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: "Andrew Nelless" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1573 Lines: 43 On Sat, February 24, 2007 11:09 am, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:35:50 -0000 (GMT) "Andrew" wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> 2.6.21-rc1 fails to boot on my machine. As soon as I switch >> from grub the screen turns and remains black with no sign of Tux or any output. >> >> I've run a git-bisect between 2.6.20 (which works fine) and >> 2.6.21-rc1 and found the first bad commit to be >> #59b8175c771040afcd4ad67022b0cc80c216b866 which seems bizarre >> to me since this is a mostly an ARM commit. >> >> I haven't tried to revert this commit because frankly I don't >> know where to go from there with a multi-parent commit. >> >> I'm running on on a Asus A8N-VM CSM motherboard with a single >> core AMD64 processor, with a nVidia GPU in the PCI-ex slot using the standard VESA frame >> buffer driver. >> >> Relevant config's can be found here: >> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anelless/linux/2.6.21-rc1/ >> >> > > and, later, > >> I have just discovered 2.6.21-rc1 boots with >> pci=noacpi ... > > Presumably this regression was caused by the ACPI merge. Are you able to > capture the dmesg output from the 2.6.20-rc1 boot? netconsole might be useful here, thanks. > > (You get added to the post-2.6.20 regression list, so you'll be hearing > from us quite a lot for the next month. Sorry ;)) > - 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/