[ale] Defective MoBo?

[Scott Castaline]

On 01/23/2011 10:28 AM, Jim Lynch wrote:
> On 01/22/2011 10:42 PM, Scott Castaline wrote:
>> On 01/22/2011 11:36 AM, Ron Frazier wrote:
>>> Scott,
>>>
>>>
>> Ron, I've pretty much done all of that all ready. The problem only
>> occurs during the kernel's initialization in the boot process, if I set
>> the BIOS to use any slot other than the onboard chip for boot. It goes
>> through POST fine, GRUB menu is displayed fine, as soon as I select the
>> kernel to boot it spews out several lines of the kernel initializing and
>> then stops. My guess is just before it gets to the entering LUKS
>> PassPhrase prompt. I was planning on trying a couple of other thins now
>> that I have the cable so I don't have to keep moving the TV over to hook
>> it up to my PC, everytime I want to try something else.
>>
>> Anyway, about your MSI MoBo, which CPU is it for, AMD or Intel? Sounds
>> pretty good, I may even give ASUS another try in the future, but not
>> from any local sources, probably Newegg. I just can't believe the bad
>> luck I've been having, I feel like the little old man in the Lil Abner
>> comic strip that used to walk around with a storm cloud over his head
>> all the time. But then, if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any
>> luck :-)
> If you want to be able to see all the messages that flew by, you can
> define a serial console and connect another system if you have a serial
> port or usb to serial adapter.
>
> There is a way to enable a network console too, but I don't know how
> much of the kernel has to be loaded for that to work.  I believe it
> works starting at boot.  Here's some info on it.
>
> http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt
> There used to be a pretty good howto on the OpenVZ wiki too.  At least
> it'll give you a few more search terms.
>
> Jim.
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Thanks Jim , I might be able to give that a try, later today or tomorrow.