[Nix-dev] CFQ I/O scheduler can't boot my system

Eelco Dolstra e.dolstra at tudelft.nl
Mon Sep 5 16:59:11 CEST 2011


Hi,

On 09/03/2011 02:41 PM, Peter Simons wrote:

> this commit
>
>      * Use the CFQ I/O scheduler, rather than the ‘none’ scheduler.  This
>        was already the case on Linux 2.6.32, but in newer kernels the CFQ
>        scheduler is built as a module, so all block devices got the ‘none’
>        scheduler instead.
>
> breaks my boot process. The linuxPackages_2_6_38_ati kernel hangs after
> probing the ata devices. I've reverted to an older version for now, but
> maybe I'm not the only one who's going to have that problem?

This should be fixed now (r29027, tested with Linux 2.6.35).

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