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Subject: Re: Hang loading initrd since last Friday.
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From:   Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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On 5/3/23 16:49, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 5/2/23 21:46, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
>> On 03.05.23 04:31, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 02:03:33PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Pulling today's upstream 6.3+ tree, my system now hangs loading initrd.
>>
>> Just to understand this properly: you mean after the boot loader said it
>> loaded the initramfs, not when the kernel starts using it?
> 
> I am bisecting...it appears to be .config related.  If I skip enabling things
> during bisect, then I do not see the problem.  But I copied my original buggy .config
> into an otherwise good kernel commit, and now it fails.  I'm manually bisecting
> the .config settings....

I had enabled this option:  CONFIG_HYPERV_VTL_MODE

And that makes it not boot.  Not sure that is expected or not, but I will simply un-select it
and continue on, as I do not actually need that feature.

Thanks,
Ben