Bug#883938: RFT: Candidate fix for boot failure of Debian 8.10 on various x86 systems

2017-12-12 Thread Dominic Benson
3.16.51-3~a.test also works on my previously problematic box.

Bug#883938: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel panic on boot after upgrading to debian 8.10 kernel 3.16.51

2017-12-10 Thread Dominic Benson
I encountered this on an old Intel SR1600 box with Westmere Xeons. I have an Ivy Bridge E5-1620v2 physical box that has booted successfully with this kernel, and I haven't seen any problem among the dozen or so VMs that have so far rebooted onto it (VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5, on dual E5 Xeon Sandy