Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Feb 1999 14:52:24 +0000 | From | Martijn van Oosterhout <> | Subject | Hang on boot without a keyboard |
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I've seen it on two machines now so I decided to try and track it down. When there is no keyboard plugged, the kernel gets stuck right after the Loading linux...... from LILO.
I tracked it down to empty_8042 in arch/i386/boot/setup.S:758
How do you tell the difference between a broken 8042 and no keyboard present? I added a limit to the number of times the code could loop and the kernel booted fine. It's been working fine ever since.
Is this the right solution or is there something better?
Martijn van Oosterhout Australia
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