From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262327AbTLSK20 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:28:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262352AbTLSK20 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:28:26 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:40342 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262327AbTLSK2Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:28:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 02:28:21 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Alexander Poquet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0 fails to complete boot - Sony VAIO laptop Message-ID: <20031219102821.GJ31393@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Alexander Poquet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031219101806.9CD491E030CA3@csbd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031219101806.9CD491E030CA3@csbd.org> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 02:16:27 -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Okay, nothing matching other bugreports turned up here. I might have >> to ask you to try to capture some log information. Do you have a null >> modem cable or a null modem adapter and serial cable, and another box >> to hook that up to? On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:27:12AM +0000, Alexander Poquet wrote: > Unfortunately not. Is there any other way I might capture some output? I > was thinking I might be able to install a null loop a la while( 1 ) { } > somewhere before filesystems are mounted, and then move it down until > the blank out occurs. What do you think? Could you point me to a relevant > place in the boot process that I could do this? Would it even help? The hardware solution is better, but I'll settle for anything you can get that way. -- wli