30.10.2012 04:24, Charles A Edwards skrev:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:38:06 +0200
Thomas Backlund wrote:
Booting this kernel all I get is a black screen.
Same occurs if I try to boot linus-3.6.4.
Server-3.6.3 still boots normally.
If you revert this one:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=commit;h=54ce8ce298f382a06186cb4672ad6aa090b050b6
Does it boot properly then ?
Are you sure that is the correct commit?
It dealt with memory holes above 4GB
(arch/x86/kernel/setup.c) and the commit was not included
in the linux-3.6.tar.xz from the 3.6.4 src rpm.
Yep.
Turns out it did more than the commit message states,
it caused regressions with a misdetection of memory on some systems,
rendering them unbootable...
There is atleast 3 fixes for the issues this patch created queued in the
upcoming 3.6.5...
Just to clarify my back screen error...
When attempting to boot any of the mga 3.6.4 kernels
I get
"Decompressing Linux ... Parsing ELF ... done"
"Booting the kernel"
"-"
and it hangs there with the flashing prompt.
Of course the bug could be another one too, but that one was the first
that came to mind....
--
Thomas
