Re: Re: xen hg tree from yesterda hangs when kernel console is directed to ttyS0

[Ben Thomas <bthomas@virtualiron.com>]

No, sorry, implicit context here.  It really feels like a
serial line issue.  When I talk about using vga, it's
concurrent usage with com1.  I've never had a problem
with using only vga.  Although, that's a very small
percentage of my usage.

-b

Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 15:22 -0500, Ben Thomas wrote:
> 
> 
>>When I see this, I generally never get very far at all.  Often, I'm
>>at the "no output at all past grub" stage.  Even with vga.  Luckily,
>>it's confined to specific machines.
> 
> 
> Even with *only* VGA?  I usually see exactly this with serial console
> enabled: if I attempt it without sync_console, dom0 always hangs solid
> very early in the boot process (though rarely at exactly the same
> location.)  But I've never seen that sort of sporadic hang during boot
> using just VGA console exclusively; the bugs I've seen have always been
> either oopses or very predictable hangs at a specific location.
> 
> --Stephen
> 
> 


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