Hello. Two ideas.
1. What program is bound to ttyS0 in inittab? *getty? Nothing? What if to change this (something to nothing or vice versa)? 2. Damned IBM PC interrupts? It may be deja vue, but it seems me that I had same effect in Novell server 10 years ago; the reason was incorrect combination of interrupts in multiple ISA network cards. /proc/interrupts, dmesg? Alexey On 05/10/05 22:35, Svein Seldal wrote: > Hi. > > I have some strange problems during boot of my system: > > I'm running stable (Sarge) with kernel-image-2.6.7-2-686 plus ditto-smp. > I have a Intel machine with a Intel P4 (family 15, model 4) @3GHz. I > have 1G of memory. My SATA HDD's are running software RAID-1 with LVM > (but that's probably irrelevant of this error). > > I'm running serial console as the main console. Hence this line is found > in by grub config: "kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686-smp > root=/dev/mapper/System-Root vga=0x31A console=ttyS0,38400 ro" > > If I boot my -smp kernel with this config, the serial console output > (and boot process) locks up after a while. It boots the kernel, starts > userspace apps as expected. It locks up approx. when its doing EXT3FS > mounts. The machine is then apparently dead, nothing more happens. > However, if I then type any charater in my serial console, it will then > output the next 16 bytes of the serial console output. Press a key, and > new 16 charaters from the console output are retured. And it will keep > on doing this until init 2 is run (apparently until the syslogd and > klogd are started) > > This behaviour is not observed when I use the tty0 as console, neither > when I boot the non-smp kernel. Nor does it lockup on shutdown. > > Does anyone know about this "feature"? Is this something to submit a > bugreport about? > > > Regards, > Svein Seldal > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
