Re: repeatable, hard lockup on boot in linux-2.6.0-test4 (more details)

From: Dale E Martin
Date: Mon Sep 01 2003 - 14:58:01 EST


> Are you able to plug any PS/2 devices into the machine, see if that makes
> a difference?

Yes, plugging in a PS/2 mouse in addition to the USB mouse does allow the
machine to boot up. (Just tried it, thanks for the suggestion.)

> Also it would be useful to add the option "initcall_debug" to the kernel
> boot command line. Then you will see a bunch of messages of the form
>
> calling initcall 0xNNNNNNNN
>
> Please look up the final address in the System.map file from the 2.6 build.
> This will give us an idea of what the machine was trying to do when it
> died.

It was in "i8042_init". Thanks again for the help.

Take care,
Dale
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