[plug] Question about the boot process.

[Dion]

Yes thanks for the pointers on this.
Have got quite a bit further along now (still not quite there).
I will begin lurking on lkml a bit from now on too.

Thanks again for the tips.
btw.  in the end it was related to forgetting to rerun lilo.

Craig Ringer wrote:

> Carl Gherardi wrote:
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>> Seen this on lkml a bunch of times in the last couple of weeks.
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>> Makes suyre you compile the console into the kernel - not as a module.
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> *lol* did that one when trying out 2.5 and reiser4 on my laptop. The 
> same problem can be observed, by the way, by setting 
> "console=/dev/ttyS0" on the kernel command line to redirect console 
> output to a serial port. Great for figuring out why that box frezes up 
> when X loads...
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