Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 1999 19:27:55 -0500 (EST) | From | Chris Noe <> | Subject | Re: kernel not willing to uncompress without keyboard |
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I have a feeling that its the empty_8042 routine in arch/i386/boot/setup.S that's causing you problems.... without a keyboard attached, some controllers will hang there, sadly. If you feel brave, take a look in setup.S around lines 598 (where we enable a20) and 783 (the empty_8042 routine itself) and see if you can get rid of those calls to empty_8042 or otherwise screw around in there so that it doesn't wait forever to empty the controller's buffers.
Chris Noe (stiker@northlink.com)
On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Thierry Danis wrote:
> > Hello, > > We have a problem making Linux booting when the keyboard (i386) is removed. > We have of course already done that on a few machines here without > trouble, but this machine is hanging just after LILO says "Loading linux...". > > I guess that the kernel is properly loaded, but it does not even show > any indication that it is starting to uncompress itself. > > With the keyboard, everything is OK. > > What could happen ? What kind of information could I provide ? > It has to be said that the machine is not a standard PC, but instead > a little packaged box. > > Any information would be useful, since we did not expect to have any > trouble with that, and we have to ship the box tomorrow ! > > Thanks in advance, > > A+, > -- > Thierry Danis > Poste : 53 53 danis@spmo.sagem.fr > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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