[ltp] Urgent:No boot a tp600x bios update!

[Tino Keitel]

On Sun, 7 Apr 2002 17:58:57 +0200 ((MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit)
Boyan <bt@stw-bonn.de> wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Friday morning at 10.20 AM I decided to update to the latest BIOS
> version 1.11 for my Thinkpad 600x. The update went smoothly but as a
> result I cannot start my linux system (SuSE 7.3) any more. When init
> starts it suddenly blocks and falls asleep. Here are part of the
> messages that I receive on the screen and I could not find in the log
> files, so a handcopy from the screen:
> 
> 	    Loading Linux ........... .
> Uncompressing linux ... Ok, booting the kernel
> Linux version 2.4.10-rGB (root@Pentium.suse.de)
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820:.... .  . . . . . . (usable)
> BIOS-e820:			    (reserved)
> BIOS-e820:			    (reserved)
> BIOS-e820:				(usable)
> .. . .
> BIOS-e820:				(ACPI data)
> BIOS-e820:				(ACPI NVS)
> BIOS-e820:				(reserved)
> BIOS-e820:				(reserved)
> On node 0 total pages: 114540
> 
> Local ACPI disabled by BIOS -- reenabling
> Could not enable APIC!
> Kernel command line: auto BOOT-IMAGE=linux ro root=308
> BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz
> Enableapic vga=0x0314
> VGA+ 80x25
> . . .
> mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd880, last bus =7
> . . .
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> Request_module[scsi-hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted
> TCP: Hash tabled configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
> Net4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET 4.0
> RAMDISK: compressed image found at block 0
> Uncompressing . . . . . . . . . . . . done.
> 
> Freeing initrd memory:547k freed
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> Loading module reiserfs
> Using /lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 48412
> reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:08)...
> Using r5 hash to sort names
> Reiserfs: using 3.5.x disk format, ReiserFS version 3.6.25
> VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly
> Change_root: old root has d_count=2
> Trying to unmoung old root ...okay
> Freeing unused kernel memory:124k freed
> 
> INIT:	 version 2.78 booting
> INIT:	 Entering run level:5
> Id "1" respawhing too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Id "2" respawhing too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Id "3" respawhing too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Id "4" respawhing too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Id "5" respawhing too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> Id "6" respawhing too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
> INIT:	no more processes left in this run level

Have you enabled CONFIG_VT in you kernel?

Tino

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