final kernel biult

[Michael Thomas]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 12:22:06PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>  > Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:32:22PM +0800, Yuan Yijun wrote:
>  > >  > 2007/5/25, Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com>:
>  > >  > > On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 22:29 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>  > >  > > > kernel-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 *should* be the final kernel for Fedora 7,
>  > >  > > > barring any late-breaking issues. If you have kmod packages that
>  > >  > > > need built, you should build them now.
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > > For what it's worth, kernel-2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 doesn't even seem to boot
>  > >  > > on my laptop.
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > meeee too. Dell e1405(640m) don't boot with 3194 or 3201.
>  > > 
>  > > What was the last one that did boot ?
>  > 
>  > for me, 3168.
>  > maxcpus=1 works for later later kernels (3194, 3201)
>  > 
>  > For posterity, see also:
>  > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/241249
> 
> Trying to spot a pattern here is hard. Because so far, it seems to be all Dell
> users, but not all Dell core-duo laptops seem to be affected.
> My precision M65 for instance is fine.

Apparently the problem is not even consistent across models.  My
Precision M65 is affected.  Booting with maxcpus=1 fixes it.

> Looking at the diffs between the kernels, the only Dell specific stuff
> shouldn't affect the various models seeing problems. (They key off the DMI data)

--Wart