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[Horst H. von Brand]

John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 13:00 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> >> For those who've forgotten or never knew, it (almost certainly)
> >> happens on every HP DC7700 and HP DC7800.
> >>
> >> It's a corporate desktop, which may explain the lack of comment
> >> here, and on asking on tikanga-list I confirmed it's not just mine
> >> (a respondent confirmed its successor also has the problem).
> >>
> >> I have two now, one will be running Tikanga-clone, tikanga++-clone
> >> when it surfaces (and if this is fixed).
> > What's the bug number again?  We may have one or so of those
> > machines in
> > our lab.
> >
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com//show_bug.cgi?id=436099
> 
> 
> I can run patches here if needs be. I've been building kernels - they
> don't boot because they won't find the lvm - from kernel.org source
> and I've just been wondering how to progress in smaller steps from
> 2.6.24.1 (finds disks) to 2.6.25-rc1 (doesn't). I currently suspect
> whatever spits out those scsi: messages that list the drives found.

Get the git repo for the kernel
<git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6> and futz
around with git-bisect. That allows you to do a binary search among patches
until you identify the culprit.

The stuff at <http://www.git.or.cz> (the unofficial homepage for git) is
worth looking at, if you are starting out.

Good luck!
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