Re: [2.6.27.4-5 stable regressions] Kernel boot early crash withlow-64k reservation patches

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Dec 09 2008 - 10:41:24 EST


On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 08:34:40AM +0100, Bruno Prémont wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On a VMWare (ESX 3.5.0 Update 3) guest we get boot failure at the very
> beginning of boot process. (Boot successful with 2.6.27.4, failing with
> 2.6.27.x where x > 4 or just adding the 5 patches below to 2.6.27.4)
>
> State of config option
> CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K=y
> or
> # CONFIG_X86_RESERVE_LOW_64K not set
> does not make any difference.

Does the 2.6.27.8 kernel work better for you, or does it also fail?

Also, have you tried the 2.6.28-rc releases to see if the problem is
also there?

thanks,

greg k-h
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