> On Saturday 29 September 2007, you wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:32:44 +0200 Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote:
> > > On Friday 28 September 2007, Frans Pop wrote:
> > > > My Toshiba Satellite A40 (i386, P4 Mobile) hangs during boot after:
> > > > Marking TSC unstable due to: possible TSC halt in C2.
> > > > Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
> > >
> > > A few new boot attempts show the problem is more likely at:
> > > Probing IDE interface ide0...
>
> Looks like it is both: hpet killing IDE?
>
> > Two iterations should get you into the culprit zone.
>
> Thanks for the pointers. Luckily I ended up in a quite narrow zone between
> two of the points you indicated (10 iterations).
>
> And the winner is:
>
> 3fe6c0016fd863b233097a8219a0d8577c2fd503 is first bad commit
> commit 3fe6c0016fd863b233097a8219a0d8577c2fd503
> Author: Udo A. Steinberg <...>
> hpet-force-enable-on-ich34
>
> Guess the comments about thin ice and testing were justified :-)
>
> lspci and a 2.6.23-rc6 dmesg for this system can be found in:
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/19/300
