Bug#841850: linux-image-4.7.0-1-686_4.7.8-1_i386.deb does not boot on Thinkpad T41
Hi Ben, hi Petra,
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 02:35:07PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 11:49 +0200, Petra Ruebe-Pugliese wrote:
> [...]
> > Okay. So I've sacrificed the less important of the two
> > notebooks again and repeated the "apt-get dist-upgrade"
> > so that the current kernel got installed again.
> >
> > In doing so, two messages appeared that looked approximately
> > like this:
> >
> > /etc/kernel-img.conf:4: ignoring unknown parameter relative_links
> > /etc/kernel-img.conf:6: ignoring unknown parameter do_bootfloppy
> >
> > The second of these lines reminds me of the fact that with
> > previous kernel versions the boot process used to stop in the
> > same place for quite some (disquieting!) time and then continued
> > with some message about a read error on /dev/fd<sth.>
>
> I don't know what 'do_bootfloppy' used to do, but I think it's unrelated to loading of the floppy driver. It sounds like you have quite an old installation that might also have some obsolete scripts left in the boot process. Also, note that the /dev/fd directory is unrelated to floppy drives.
>
> > This was the case on all my computers, although these two
> > thinkpads no longer have a floppy drive.
> >
> > Now to the photo. I've tried to make one.
> > With these new boot parameters there is a lot of output rushing
> > through which I could not catch. So I'm sending only what was
> > to be seen when it stopped. Maybe that's enough to put you on
> > the right track. If not, please tell me what else I can do
> > to bring some light into the matter.
>
> OK, this is the same crash that someone else reported and I think I
> know which change triggered it (though not why).
There seem to be an upstream fix now for this issue:
https://git.kernel.org/linus/ff8560512b8d4b7ca3ef4fd69166634ac30b2525
Can you by chance confirm that this works as well for you?
Regards,
Salvatore
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