Bug 62971

Summary:	Kernel 3.11.1 and higher does not boot on VMware VM
Product:	SCSI Drivers	Reporter:	Bojan Smojver (bojan)
Component:	BUSLOGIC	Assignee:	scsi_drivers-buslogic
Status:	RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Severity:	high	CC:	szg00000
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	3.11.1	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:

Description Bojan Smojver 2013-10-13 23:27:08 UTC

See downstream bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015558

It seems that changes to BusLogic driver in 3.11 may have caused this problem.

An interesting link, including a patch, is here:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg69044.html

AFAICT, it has not been merged into mainline or stable yet.

PS. Note that I am not in a very good position to test, bisect etc., because I do not control the VMware installation, only the Fedora guest OS. However, there are folks in the downstream bug that can test.

Comment 1 Bojan Smojver 2013-10-14 22:39:00 UTC

That patch fixes commit 839cb99e8f748391059d10388c8aea48a88c142c, which seem to have introduced the problem.

Comment 2 Bojan Smojver 2013-10-17 13:17:44 UTC

BTW, as tested in the downstream bug, the patch from the link is the fix.