Re: EDD problem -- regression -- crash on booting by probing EDD

[Andrew Morton]

> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:33:32 -0300 (GFT) "werner" <werner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There is a regression in 2.6.25.

Rafael bcc'ed.

>   Booting stops with: Probing EDD (edd=off to disable) message.
> 
> It dont work the kernel boot parameter edd=off .  With pci=off the computer continues to boot, but later it dont find hard disks etc.

Tim and Matt cc'ed.

> Thats happening on 2.6.25   definitive, but was verified to go back until 2.6.24-rc6-git8, but it wasnt yet at 2.6.24-rc6-git2 which worked correctly.
> 

hm, that's a nice narrow window.  Unfortunately for the next few days I
can't personally get in and find out what we changed during it.

It would be useful if you could add `initcall_debug' to your kernel
boot command line, please. That will help us to confirm that the
bug is indeed in edd_init(), rather than in something which was
called later on.

Thanks.
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