Re: 2.6.0 fails to complete boot - Sony VAIO laptop

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> At some point in the past, I wrote:
> WLI3> Could you post your lilo.conf and/or grub.conf and /etc/fstab?
>
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:07:55AM +0000, Alexander Poquet wrote:
> > Certainly.  Thanks a lot for the reply.
>
> 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?

Alexander, does the blinking look like it may have something to do with
setting screen modes? Could you try the following patch?

Index: linux-2.6.0/arch/i386/boot/video.S
===================================================================
RCS file: /build/cvsroot/linux-2.6.0/arch/i386/boot/video.S,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
diff -u -p -B -r1.1.1.1 video.S
--- linux-2.6.0/arch/i386/boot/video.S	18 Dec 2003 07:16:25 -0000	1.1.1.1
+++ linux-2.6.0/arch/i386/boot/video.S	20 Dec 2003 21:45:10 -0000
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ vid1:
 #ifdef CONFIG_VIDEO_RETAIN
 	call	restore_screen			# Restore screen contents
 #endif /* CONFIG_VIDEO_RETAIN */
-	call	store_edid
+#	call	store_edid
 #endif /* CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT */
 	call	mode_params			# Store mode parameters
 	popw	%ds				# Restore original DS
-
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