* Re: Flashing keyboard LEDS upon boot.
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@ 2004-02-04 8:21 ` Len Brown
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From: Len Brown @ 2004-02-04 8:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Willy Tarreau; +Cc: Richard B. Johnson, Linux kernel
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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* Flashing keyboard LEDS upon boot.
@ 2004-02-02 15:55 Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-02 16:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
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From: Richard B. Johnson @ 2004-02-02 15:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux kernel
Sometimes, when booting Linux-2.3.24 from bzImage, machines
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".
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.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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2004-02-02 15:55 Richard B. Johnson
@ 2004-02-02 16:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-02-03 23:13 ` Willy Tarreau
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From: Richard B. Johnson @ 2004-02-02 16:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linux kernel
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, 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".
>
> 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.
>
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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2004-02-02 16:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
@ 2004-02-03 23:13 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-02-04 14:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Willy Tarreau @ 2004-02-03 23:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard B. Johnson; +Cc: Linux kernel
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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* Re: Flashing keyboard LEDS upon boot.
2004-02-03 23:13 ` Willy Tarreau
@ 2004-02-04 14:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
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From: Richard B. Johnson @ 2004-02-04 14:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Willy Tarreau; +Cc: Linux kernel
On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, 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
>
Well I modified the kernel to write 0 to the printer port
when it starts uncompressing the RAM disk and subsequent
numbers after. It never gets beyond 1, which means it crashed
immediately after or during the printing of "OK. Booting the
kernel"
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.
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