Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:45:41 -0500 (EST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0 fails to complete boot - Sony VAIO laptop |
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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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