> > Now, whenever I boot, right after the line "Loading ramdisk image from > > /pci/s...@c/d...@1:\boot/initrd.img ..." I get the message "General > > Protection Exception" - and the boot hangs. > > The problem is consistently repeatable.
Well, last night the problem was repeatable. Today, it isn't happening -- repeated reboots all work properly, without hanging. [I have not made any changes that I know of to the XO-1.5 system between last night and today.] > so, what's the sequence for repeating? once you clear the problem, > how do you make it happen again? What I did last night was to type in 'shutdown -r now', and wait for the system to reboot itself. IIRC, last night I also got the hang if I simply held the power button to halt the system, then pressed the power button to start it up again. [To be able to tell when the boot process stopped, I would press the 'check' game button after the screen had gone dark, and release that button after the screen had again been lit -- but the hang was occurring even if I had NOT deviated from the normal ("pretty") boot.] I called this a "zero dot" hang because it looked quite similar to the "one dot" hang that was discussed here. mikus _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel