Re: Hard locks in 2.1.123

storner@image.dk
29 Sep 1998 21:26:02 -0000


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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