Re: 2.6.0 fails to complete boot - Sony VAIO laptop

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

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?

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:27:12AM +0000, Alexander Poquet wrote:
> 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?

The hardware solution is better, but I'll settle for anything you can
get that way.


-- wli