Bug#493479: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: OK, I really just wanted to get RAID working, but...
> > Do you have any other suggestions?
>
> Bisecting. See http://kerneltrap.org/node/11753.
Ha ha ha... I was afraid you would say that.
This all started for me last Thursday: I bought 2 new 500GB drives
for this server machine so I could play with RAID and learn how it's
done. I decided to check the drives with 'badblocks' first, not
realizing how long it would take. (After 18 hours, the return of the
shell prompt with no message let me know that all is well.)
Friday I was distracted by real world activities, and only managed
to find out that the "RAID" feature on this motherboard is "fake RAID"
and read a bunch of documentation about how software RAID works with
Linux.
Saturday I noticed that Debian sources for 2.6.26-1 had appeared on
Sid, so I made the (fateful) decision to test it to make sure it would
compile on my machines. One of my 3 machines is not usable at the
moment, but on the first machine all went well -- the kernel compiled
and ran just fine. Then I tried it on this machine, and since Saturday
night I have been trying to figure out what went wrong.
Bisecting with git, huh? OK, just because I've never done it before
doesn't mean I cannot learn. Since I used up all of Sunday trying to
find a solution, I don't want to waste the effort I've put into
finding the bug so far. I have 2 more days off, so I'll put in just
one more day trying to pin it down.
I will not be posting any more messages about this bug here unless I
actually discover something. I will be moving to the LKML in the
meantime, since I will be working with their sources directly.
Thanks,
Dave W.
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