Re: Dual P4 Xeon i860 system - lockups in 2.4 & no boot in 2.2

[Alan Cox]

> Tried 2.2 again thinking it might work now with the fixed BIOS settings
> but no, still getting the "Keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?"
> and "hda: lost interrupt" messages. So I can't even boot 2.2 and I have no

I guess that box is always assuming PnP or ACPI setup in which case 2.2
will never work on it.

Cold boot in the sense that reset buttons don't work or cold in the sense
ctrl-alt-del doesn't work. If the reset button isn't working thats a real
"hardware died" alarm bell