Re: akita + 3.5.4.1-RC4 : almost bricked : had to restore NAND

On 5/24/06, Olivier Berger <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'd like to report some strange behaviour I've had with my akita, on
> which I had installed 3.5.4.1-RC4.
>
> I've been testing a little bit, and at some point, probably after
> having resumed from suspend, the machine was unresponsive...
>
> I did a reset and rebooted, which only went til a certain point where
> I would only see a black screen, and the machine quite stuck...
>
> The "disk activity"/mail led had been flicking for a while then
> nothing.
>
> Only suspend and resume would do something, but apart from that plain
> black screen (although lit)...
>
> I tried and re-flash the gpe image, and it unfortunately didn't help :
> same problem...
>
> I don't have any clue of what went wrong, but I didn't play alot with
> it, so it seems like there may be a nasty bug somewhere around...
>
> I've restored NAND then reinstalled and will pray for not meeting the
> same problem again (or this time be able to provide more debug
> disagnostics ? ;)
>
> I hope that if someone faces the same, it would help confirm I didn't
> dream and it's not my fault also ;)

Perhaps something went too far and wrote over the end of your flash
root partition...although this shouldn't happen normally...

>
>
> Anyway, the fact that the boot process won't provide any diagnostics
> until messages from altboot may be pretty fine for a long-tested
> stable release, but I seem it's a bit premature now considering the
> novelty of 3.5.4.x on clamshell models. What d'you think ?
>

I certainly agree with you on this. Even for a stable release I just
*like* to have the linux messages output. But for RCs and such it
seems that it would make more sense to allow output.

-- 
Justin Patrin


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