Need help bisecting 2 kernels

[Joseph Salisbury]

On 12/27/2012 09:43 AM, rihad wrote:
> Hi, folks. I've been experiencing a Kubuntu bootup issue of kernel not 
> initializing Device Mapper properly (see 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/880646 for 
> details). Now I need to bisect 2 kernel versions to determine which 
> commit started triggering this bug, and since I'm in no way a kernel 
> dev I'm having a hard time with that. Can you write or point me to a 
> simple how-to on the matter? I've tried this one: 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/KernelBisection but I just can't get it 
> right.
> Specifically I need to bisect these kernel versions:
> good: 2.6.37-11.25
> bad: 2.6.37-12.26
>
> "bad" is where things started being wrong.
>
> TIA!
>
I'd be happy to help, Rihad.  I'll post a comment in the bug.


Thanks,

Joe