From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261563AbTLTVqa (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:46:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261575AbTLTVqa (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:46:30 -0500 Received: from modemcable178.89-70-69.mc.videotron.ca ([69.70.89.178]:65410 "EHLO montezuma.fsmlabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261563AbTLTVq2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:46:28 -0500 Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 16:45:41 -0500 (EST) From: Zwane Mwaikambo To: William Lee Irwin III cc: Alexander Poquet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0 fails to complete boot - Sony VAIO laptop In-Reply-To: <20031219101627.GI31393@holomorphy.com> Message-ID: References: <20031219095849.A646A1E030CA3@csbd.org> <20031219101627.GI31393@holomorphy.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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