[Solved]driver inits hang at boottime <dmesg inside>

Jimmers · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 145

I've been having a problem at boot time with my ibook4. During boot, it will hang indefinately 50% of the time at either "Serial : 8250/16550 driver $Revision : 1.90$ 8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled" or the radeon driver init. dmesg outputs this error after the radeon init:

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

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Jimmers · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 145

Ah! Thank you much! I tried searching for the the dmesg error output, but no luck. Guess I should've searched for "8250/16550 Serial" or somesuch. Thanks again.