On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 18:49 +0100, Matthias Jordan wrote: > Hi, folks. > > Since I've been running Ubuntu Breezy on my iBook G4 I kept having > problems booting the kernel - regardless of the kernel version. From > time to time the kernel just wouldn't start because it hung right > after the printk from the serial driver. The only solution to this > was to press the On/Off button for like 5 seconds to turn the > machine off the hard way. When the issue appeared, the kernel kept > hanging for a couple of tries to boot it but then again I often > could boot about 10 times without any problems. > > Now I started to put some debug output into the driver files (mostly > 8250.c) to see which function causes the problem. The funny thing is > that the problem hasn't showed up ever since. This is why I wonder > if it might be a timing problem.
Just don't load this driver. It has nothing to do on a mac anyway. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
