[PLUG] interesting (painful) mystery
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Mon Oct 22 18:08:43 UTC 2007
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, Kurt Sussman wrote:
> alan (alan at clueserver.org) typed this ...
>> If it happens with everything, then it is not software.
>
> I guess you missed the part about the keys working again after the
> root partition is mounted, no matter what OS is booted? I'd say that
> proves that it's not hardware. I could be wrong, but I haven't seen a
> hardware-related explanation that fits the behavior I described.
Maybe it is being pre-possessed for Halloween.
> After my new laptop arrives (UPS says it's in Kentucky now, hopefully it
> will head west soon) I'll spend some time playing with stuff that
> doesn't seem logical to me, but in the meantime, I have work to do.
It does not make sense to me either. (Unless there is some setting in
initrd or the kernel options that is getting overridden when the main
partition gets mounted.)
Weird.
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