Re: Flashing keyboard LEDS upon boot.

Len Brown
2004-02-04T08:21:58Z

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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