From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760287AbWLFIBO (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 03:01:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760291AbWLFIBO (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 03:01:14 -0500 Received: from wylie.me.uk ([82.68.155.89]:41641 "EHLO mail.wylie.me.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760287AbWLFIBM (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Dec 2006 03:01:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17782.30913.566538.135240@wylie.me.uk> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 08:01:05 +0000 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: alan@wylie.me.uk (Alan J. Wylie) Newsgroups: linux.kernel Subject: Re: can't boot : Spurious ACK with kernel 2.6.19 References: <20061205225316.GA2948@mail.prager.ws> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:00:13 +0100, Bernd Prager said: > I'm trying to upgrade to kernel 1.6.19. The boot process immediatly > locks in a loop with the message: "atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on > isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware > directly." The above message is a result of the keyboard LEDs being flashed after a failed boot. See my posting http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/5/239 with a patch to suppress these repeated messages, so you can see what the real problem is. -- Alan J. Wylie http://www.wylie.me.uk/ "Perfection [in design] is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but rather when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery