From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
To: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
Cc: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Flashing keyboard LEDS upon boot.
Date: 04 Feb 2004 03:21:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1075882885.13728.2055.camel@dhcppc4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BF1FE1855350A0479097B3A0D2A80EE0023E85DF@hdsmsx402.hd.intel.com>
Richard,
Curious that the 2nd boot works...
In any case, if the kernel dies in the early ACPI table parsing code
you'd never get any console output -- so Willy may be right.
Let me know if the system boots with "acpi=off", but does not boot
without.
thanks,
-Len
On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 18:13, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hi Dick,
>
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:06:50AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > Sometimes, when booting Linux-2.3.24 from bzImage, machines
> > ^
> > Typo Linux-2.4.24
> >
> > > display "Uncompressing Linux ..., Ok. Booting the kernel."
> > > Then the machine just sits there with the keyboard LEDS
> > > (Num-Lock, Caps-lock, and Scroll-lock) flashing at about
> > > a 1-second interval. It will do this "forever".
>
> Flashing leds indicate a kernel panic on recent kernels (was in -ac
> for
> a while).
>
> > > Can anybody tell me what it has found "wrong" that prevents
> > > it from continuing the boot? A whole bunch of new Dell Computers
> > > display this problem. The second boot will always work, but
> > > the first cold-start boot will often result in this problem.
>
> Hmmm. perhaps ACPI or a broken driver ?
>
> Cheers,
> Willy
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2004-02-04 8:21 ` Len Brown [this message]
2004-02-02 15:55 Flashing keyboard LEDS upon boot Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-02 16:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-03 23:13 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-02-04 14:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
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