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femc

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Registered: 2007-03-31

Posts: 10

Strange messages on boot, can't get into system

My computer was ~1 month unbooted and `pacman -Syu`d couple of times at this time. Now at boot it spits out strange messages like this:
(handwritten so there may be typos)

isapnp: No Plug Play device found
Serial:                driver ports IRQ sharing disabled
serial      : ttyS at I O x f    irq =       is a NS      A
serial    :     : activated
     :   : ttyS at I O x f irq =        is a        A
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as class input input
PNP: PS Controller [PNP        :PS K PNP f    :PS M] at    x      x     irq
i         c: Detected active multiplexing controller     rev
serio: i     KBD port at   x     x     irq
serio: i     AUX    port at   x     x     irq
serio: i     AUX    port at   x     x     irq
serio: i     AUX    port at   x     x     irq
serio: i     AUX    port at   x     x     irq

I was able anyway to boot into my system with Arch LiveCD (kernel 2.6.20) giving kernel root=/dev/sda3 option at boot. I tried compiling 2.6.27.1 and using this new vmlinuz and kernel img (made `oldconfig` from newest livecd /proc/config.gz) , but problem persists. Is it somehow related to I8042 controller? I've set CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y.

I have also tried adding acpi=off, noapic and irqpoll kernel boot parameters, and with acpi=off I get into
(handwritten so there may be typos)

bus:               index               io port : [   ffff]
bus:               index               mmio : [   ffffffff]

*CUT*

NET: Registered protocol family
IP route cache hash table entries:               order:               bytes
TCP established hash table entries:               order:               bytes
TCP bind hash table entries:               order:               bytes
TCP: Hash tables configured   established               bind
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family

Trying 2008.6 LiveCD's "boot into existing linux system" reverts into same problem.

So I got no more ideas.

Last edited by femc (2008-12-16 02:40:39)