On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:

(note, the standalone mail of this bug entry did not make it out 
for some reason.)

Hm, strange.  I certainly received it from one of the lists.

* Rafael J. Wysocki [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12760
Subject		: 2.6.29-rc5 hanging at boot when CONFIG_LOCK_STAT=y
Submitter	: Adam J. Richter [off-list ref]
Date		: 2009-02-16 6:50 (8 days old)
References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123476768023893&w=4
Handled-By	: Ingo Molnar [off-list ref]

Here we came to the conclusion that this is some LILO bug with a 
too large BSS section - that's one thing that CONFIG_LOCK_STAT 
causes. Under Grub the same kernel image boots fine. So unless 
Adam has new data that contradicts this i think we can close 
this bug.

Thanks, closed.

Rafael