Very Computer

http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328

           Summary: The computer seems to hang after the kernel has
                    uncompressed and starts to boot.
    Kernel Version: 2.5.59
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal

Distribution: RedHat 8.0
Hardware Environment: Acer Aspire 1300 laptop
Software Environment: RedHat 8.0, GCC 3.2, LILO
Problem Description: When I have compiled the kernel without problems and
restart the computer the only two lines that are printed are:

Booting 2.5.59
Uncompressing the kernel, Ok booting the kernel

then there is no more text printed out and the keyboard do not work. But I
can  see some activity on the harddisk for about 10 seconds. When I reset
the  computer fsck is run because the disk was not cleanly unmounted. It
seems like  the system can almost boot but I can't see anything on the
screen.

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There, if one needs a character device that is not present
a request_module("char-major-%d") is done.
However, if the character device has TTY_MAJOR or TTYAUX_MAJOR
and a driver for this major is requested, and we already have
one, but it is the wrong one, then we also do the request_module.
Yecch.

The reason is of course that entirely different drivers cover
different fragments of the major space (4,1 is /dev/tty1 and
4,65 is /dev/ttyS1)

So, I could imagine that if one has neither module, and needs
one, get_chrfops() loads the wrong one. Speculation.

Andries
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