[ale] Defective MoBo?

[Jim Lynch]

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.