Michael L. Hitch wrote:
> 
> On Jul  6,  2:11pm, Gregory McGarry wrote:
> > At the point something goes wrong, the internal SCSI driver spins
> > up, leading me to think it is something to do with the SCSI bus.
> > But really, I have no idea.  With prom bugs and what-not...
> 
>   This sounds like the console driver isn't configuring properly when
> the serial port gets configured.  The kernel is probably continue
> with the boot, since the SCSI drive won't spin up until the SCSI
> device configuration is done, which will be after the autoconfig
> stuff is done.  I'd suspect that it is getting to the point of prompting
> for input, but nothing is getting output to the serial port.

Are you suggesting I should have something attached to my serial
port?  From your last message to Simon, I thought you might end
up mentioning such a point.

I don't have a console on the serial port.

Regards,
Greg

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Gregory McGarry
Signal Processing Research Centre
School of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering
Queensland University of Technology, Australia