From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262288AbTLSKYs (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:24:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262308AbTLSKYs (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:24:48 -0500 Received: from csbd.org ([66.220.23.20]:3233 "EHLO csbd.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262288AbTLSKYr (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:24:47 -0500 To: wli@holomorphy.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0 fails to complete boot - Sony VAIO laptop Date: Fri Dec 19 02:18:06 2003 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20031219101806.9CD491E030CA3@csbd.org> From: atp@csbd.org (Alexander Poquet) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 02:16:27 -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Okay, nothing matching other bugreports turned up here. I might have > to ask you to try to capture some log information. Do you have a null > modem cable or a null modem adapter and serial cable, and another box > to hook that up to? Unfortunately not. Is there any other way I might capture some output? I was thinking I might be able to install a null loop a la while( 1 ) { } somewhere before filesystems are mounted, and then move it down until the blank out occurs. What do you think? Could you point me to a relevant place in the boot process that I could do this? Would it even help? Alexander