On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 10:23 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > It's most likely a driver module that's getting loaded which is turned > > off in the booting configuration ... finding it isn't going to be easy, > > though ... > > Finally got a build (had to swap out -Os for -O2).
Didn't need this with the gcc 4.5.3 snapshot that I mentioned previously. > I traced the module loads and successful inits and found it; it's > pata_cmd64x ... it loads but never returns from init. I bet it's > trying to poke into ISA space which causes the HPMC. > > Removing this one module from the system allows it to boot again. Confirm that removing this module restores boot. This is excellent detective work. If I might ask, how did you trace the module loads and successful inits? Thanks, Dave -- J. David Anglin dave.ang...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
