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

[Cillian de Róiste]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:

> On 09/05/2011 10:59 AM, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>
>> 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).
>>
>>  I still get this hang unless I set elevator=noop at boot. Using
> linuxPackages_2_6_39.
>

I also ran into this issue today with both linuxPackages_2_6_39 and
linuxPackages_2_6_38_ati
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