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<font size="-1">I'm not expecting you guys to fix this one. It is
an odd one. I'm just documenting it and maybe someone else would
have seen this behaviour.<br>
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I have 2 systems based on this MB.<br>
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System has 2 128GB SSD drives.<br>
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Running CentOS 6:<br>
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2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64<br>
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Before vacation I placed one of my management devices with this
system and configured serial terminal. I got this working.<br>
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The odd behaviour came on reboot. When I issued a reboot the last
message on the serial console was "Restarting system". The system
appeared to hang. If I restarted via the reset button the system
may not boot. I would see the BIOS post on my LCD, but nothing
when accessing the SSD. I ran out of time so I rigged up X10
control so that from PCB I could cycle power. The only way I
could get it to boot when i experienced this behaviour was to pull
power. X10 solved it.<br>
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I had done some much, upgrade, add PCI card, etc that I decided to
narrow it down before I left. When I disabled serial console in
Grub and the OS problem went away. My conclusion was that this
problem may not be specific to the Linux kernel, but something
about the hardware on the MB. The BIOS does support console
redirection, but I've yet tested it to see if that fixes the
problem.<br>
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I run my system headless at Peak 10 using serial console so not
having a serial console on this one makes me nervous. I have
power control there too so I only visit to touch hardware.<br>
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This is the first time I experinced a problem like this that was
linked to running serial console in Linux.<br>
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Chris<br>
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