Bug#670480: "waiting for dev to be fully populated" when discrete video card set in BIOS on ThinkPad W520

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

reassign 670480 src:linux-2.6 3.2.15-1
tags 670480 + moreinfo
quit

Hi Stephen,

Stephen Byrne wrote:

> ThinkPad W520 with NVidia Quadro 1000M usually hangs on boot at
> "waiting for dev to be fully populated" when the discrete card is selected
> in the BIOS.  When either the onboard card or NVidia Optimus is selected, the
> system boots normally and the onboard card works fine. I do not know if it is a
> udev problem or a kernel problem or what, I just guessed.

Please attach output from

  reportbug --template linux-image-$(uname -r)

Logs from a failed boot would be very useful if you can get them
(using a serial console[1], netconsole[2], or by attaching a
photograph, for example).

[1] http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/serial-console.txt
[2] http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt