Re: box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading) - solved

2006-05-29 Thread Uwe Dippel
Thanks for everyone jumping in and helping out so fast ! - More more than I'd ever expect !! This - as they say - rocks ! Okay, (as usual) a part of the blame was on me; stupid, panic, you-name-it. And one part on the system: The machine is run fully through serial console, including boot. It

Re: box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading) - solved

2006-05-29 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/5/29, Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now, since it didn't reboot properly, I went to the server room and attached a PS2-keyboard to the running machine. This seems to make the PS2 is _NOT_ hot-pluggable. Hot-plugging PS2 may even damage your mainboard (happend on some IBM-workstations).

Re: box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading) - solved

2006-05-29 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Mon, 29 May 2006 11:50:56 +0200, Martin Schrvder wrote: PS2 is _NOT_ hot-pluggable. Uuh, never occurred to me before. Good to learn something new each and every day ! Except of the servers being down, I don't usually do it. That means when the network is down, and you don't have a keyboard

Re: box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading) - solved

2006-05-29 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/5/29, Uwe Dippel [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 29 May 2006 11:50:56 +0200, Martin Schrvder wrote: PS2 is _NOT_ hot-pluggable. Uuh, never occurred to me before. Good to learn something new each and every day ! Except of the servers being down, I don't usually do it. That means when the