[Astlinux-devel] Boot Occasionally Freezing While Probing PS/2 Ports

[Josh A. <jm...@ho...>]

Hello again,


I made a custom build for an HP t5700 thinclient with a Transmeta Crusoe processor.  I got that figured out (thanks again, Michael!) but occasionally the machine gets hung up on booting, and this is the last thing on the screen:


i8042: PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.


This thinclient has no PS/2 ports, so I figured I could just go ahead and try to remove PS/2 support to solve this issue.  I commented out all of the lines under "Hardware I/O ports" in the following files that seemed relevant for my geni586 build:


project/runnix-iso/geni586/linux.config
project/runnix/geni586/linux.config
project/astlinux/geni586/linux-smp.config


Then, I went ahead and rm -rf'd my output folder and ran scripts/build geni586.  Is this the proper method to remove PS/2 support?  Moreover, should this approach solve my problem?  Since it's an intermittent issue, it would be great to get some outside input rather than convincing myself after a few successful reboots that I've solved the problem.  Thanks!


Josh