Re: [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] System hangs (loops?) during boot

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:40:22 +0200 Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Saturday 29 September 2007, you wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:32:44 +0200 Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Friday 28 September 2007, Frans Pop wrote:
My Toshiba Satellite A40 (i386, P4 Mobile) hangs during boot after:
Marking TSC unstable due to: possible TSC halt in C2.
Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.

A few new boot attempts show the problem is more likely at:
Probing IDE interface ide0...

Looks like it is both: hpet killing IDE?

Two iterations should get you into the culprit zone.

Thanks for the pointers. Luckily I ended up in a quite narrow zone between
two of the points you indicated (10 iterations).

And the winner is:

3fe6c0016fd863b233097a8219a0d8577c2fd503 is first bad commit
commit 3fe6c0016fd863b233097a8219a0d8577c2fd503
Author: Udo A. Steinberg <...>
hpet-force-enable-on-ich34

Guess the comments about thin ice and testing were justified :-)

lspci and a 2.6.23-rc6 dmesg for this system can be found in:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/19/300

Great, thanks for doing that.

I guess I'll drop the patch for now in that case.
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