I was able to get it up by moving PS/2 mouse support into the kernel
instead of having it as a module. Yet that makes no sense to me.
Nick
Please CC to nkirsch@biznatch.nick.org
On 29 Sep 1998 storner@image.dk wrote:
> Nick <nkirsch@biznatch.nick.org>:
>
> >I recently wrote a message about my kernel hard locking on bootup before
> >the IDE controller initialization.
>
> Are you sure it locks hard ? I thought my new Compaq (at-work system)
> was doing this, but it turned out that the problem was with the keyboard
> initialization code - 2 out of 3 times, the keyboard init code fails
> and takes a while to time out, leaving the keyboard disabled.
>
> Adding the "kbd-reset" boot parameter fixed it for me. (Check the
> exact parameter name - this is from memory).
>
>
> --
> Henrik Storner | "testing? What's that? If it compiles, it is good,
> | if it boots up it is perfect."
> | Linus Torvalds
>
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