Re: Flashing keyboard LEDS upon boot.

Willy Tarreau
2004-02-03T23:14:58Z

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