Richard wrote: > > I have a LFS 7.2 system and a Shuttle AV49 motherboard. > About one time in every 20 bootups, my computer hangs > up and I have to power it down and back up. When it > hangs, the last line I see on the monitor is: > > Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled > > When it boots successfully, the next line I see is: > > serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A > > So it appears that the problem has something to do with > the uart. I've tried searching the web and I did find > some mention of a potential problem detecting the uart, > but I didn't find a solution. Is anyone aware of this > particular problem? I assume it is a kernel bug of some > kind. I haven't been able to get any useful information > from the logs, everything just seems to stop at the > above point.
I'd say it's more likely a hardware problem. Are you using the serial port at all? If not, just disable all configuration items in the kernel regarding serial ports. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
