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From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Flashing keyboard LEDS upon boot.
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 00:13:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040203231352.GA29363@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0402021105560.24632@chaos>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-03 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
2004-02-04 14:19     ` Richard B. Johnson
     [not found] <BF1FE1855350A0479097B3A0D2A80EE0023E85DF@hdsmsx402.hd.intel.com>
2004-02-04  8:21 ` Len Brown

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