> >: No problem here on Lombard with the 'same' kernel. Forced crash, you say - > >: how so, and how would be rebooting from a crash differ from just booting > >: using yaboot? > > > :) > > in my case there was a problem with 2.2.16, sometimes lost interrupts, > especially during boot when pmud told hdparm to do "-d1 -p -S 0 > /dev/hda" _after_ a solid lock due to a simple 'stty < ttyS2'
OK, I don't think stty kills the machine for me... nope, just takes a while for the port to power up. Just using the keyboard reset doesn't give any error message during boot. Michael