The blinking lights mean the kernel has entered kdb. Your best bet, if
possible, is to setup a serial console to another machine so you can use
kdb to atleast see why the kernel crashed.
Jim.
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 20:32, Matthew Geier wrote:
> Using XFS 2.4.21 cvs on a Athlon/Nforce2 PC, on an otherwise standard
> RedHat 9 install. When I burn a CD, the system locks hard. Only signs of
> life are blinking keyboard lights. Have to press reset. I can't seem to
> find exactly what the blinking lights mean. I assume something really
> BAD has happened to the kernel...
>
> Works with the standard RD kernel (but the HD doesn't run in the fasted
> DMA mode it supports and firewire doesn't work at all).
>
> I don't actually have any XFS file systems on this box - the XFS/RH9
> boot disk people have done won't boot on this machine. I do use XFS on
> other boxen hence using the XFS kernel on this particular machine.
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