Messages in this thread | | | From | John Bradford <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.59 morse code panics | Date | Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:58:52 +0000 (GMT) |
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> There's a *REASON* that IBM RS/6K boxes have at least a little 3-digit LED > display - during boot or a panic, even if you can't trust the console drivers > anymore, you can still output *something*.
By the way, you can buy cards with LED displays on which monitor port 80h, and tell you how far through the boot process a box is getting. Not much use on a laptop, though :-).
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