Re: Flashing keyboard LEDS upon boot.

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

>
> Sometimes, when booting Linux-2.3.24 from bzImage, machines
                                  ^
Typo                      Linux-2.4.24

> display "Uncompressing Linux ..., Ok. Booting the kernel."
> Then the machine just sits there with the keyboard LEDS
> (Num-Lock, Caps-lock, and Scroll-lock) flashing at about
> a 1-second interval. It will do this "forever".
>
> Can anybody tell me what it has found "wrong" that prevents
> it from continuing the boot? A whole bunch of new Dell Computers
> display this problem. The second boot will always work, but
> the first cold-start boot will often result in this problem.
>

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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