FS#24682 - [kernel26] 2.6.39-1 fails to boot

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Chris Darnell (cedeel) - Saturday, 11 June 2011, 12:08 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Saturday, 22 October 2011, 17:40 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
kernel26-2.6.39-1 fails to boot on my ASUS P8H67-M LE using EFI.
Immediately after GRUB2 menu selection, the system reboots.

Additional info:
* package version: kernel26-2.6.39-1


Steps to reproduce:
Install the package on a similar system
Try booting
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Closed by  Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Saturday, 22 October 2011, 17:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Additional comments about closing:  Not enough info. Open a bug with actual details about the failure if this is still a problem with the latest linux package.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 11 June 2011, 13:07 GMT
This is not the place to find out what's broken in your setup. Find out in IRC or forum if your setup is wrong or _what_ exactly is broken in the kernel.
Comment by Chris Darnell (cedeel) - Saturday, 11 June 2011, 13:49 GMT
I don't see how my setup is wrong since it has worked with all previous kernels. I am merely posting all possible details that could relate to the bug to help others.
Comment by Chris Darnell (cedeel) - Saturday, 11 June 2011, 14:03 GMT
Kernel command line looks like this:
linux /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/94f722f8-1208-4a33-a108-2286beb2ae34 ro nomodeset add_efi_memmap
Comment by Chris Darnell (cedeel) - Saturday, 11 June 2011, 16:15 GMT
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1106.0/01429.html

It seems that a patch went into stable kernel sources without enough testing.

A workaround the non-boot issue is to use the 'noefi' option on the kernel command line, although this results in the EFI runtime being unavailable.
Comment by Anonymous Submitter - Sunday, 12 June 2011, 12:29 GMT
Same thread at http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/9230ce8bb985917c/cc8a59229a9561aa?lnk=raot&pli=1 . The problem seems to be applying that one patch alone without applyting the previous patches. See https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24463 (or https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFIBooting#Kernel%20unbootable%20without%20noefi ) for all the patches to be applied.
Comment by roko (roko) - Monday, 20 June 2011, 22:54 GMT
As it appears to be kernel bug the category should be changed to Upstream bugs. Tobias, can you change it?
Comment by Alexandre Bique (babali) - Monday, 11 July 2011, 03:39 GMT
Hi,

Why the kernel is built with an "old" and prerelease version of gcc ?

Linux version 2.6.39-ARCH (thomas@evey) (gcc version 4.6.0 20110603 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jun 27 21:26:22 CEST 2011
Comment by Ali Kaasinen (vanukas) - Sunday, 24 July 2011, 18:30 GMT
Because it was the latest one at the time?

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