Re: [patch] Re: Kernels > 2.6.1-mm3 do not boot. - SOLVED

[Eric]

On Monday 26 January 2004 13:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Eric <eric@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Monday 26 January 2004 00:00, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >  > "John Stoffel" <stoffel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  > > Sure, the darn thing wouldn't boot, it kept Oopsing with the
> >  > >  test_wp_bit oops (that I just posted more details about).
> >  >
> >  > Does this fix the test_wp_bit oops?
> >
> >  Yes, it fixes my test_wp_bit oops. But NOW, when booting 2.6.2-rc1-mm3
> > (which i pathed removing -funit-at-a-time and the wp_but oops patch) I
> > get an oops derefrencing null pointer in blkdev_reread_part.
>
> It is likely that this can be fixed by reverting
>
> 	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2-rc1/2.
>6.2-rc1-mm3/broken-out/md-06-allow-partitioning.patch -
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YES. I finally have a working 2.6.2-rc1-mm3 booted kernel.
Lets review folks---
	reverted -funit-at-a-time
	patched test_wp_bit so exception tables are sorted sooner
	reverted md-partition patch
Thank you very much for your help. I hope we all learned something today. I 
definatly did.
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Eric Bambach
Eric at cisu dot net
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