On 9/13/07 8:38 PM, "Lubomir Sedlacik" <salo@Xtrmntr.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 03:13:49PM -0500, Peter Eisch wrote:
>> From the time the boot blocks finish loading the kernel until anything
>> gets printed on the console nothing seems to be happening.  For around
>> 2 minutes the system appears to be dead aside from the drive activity
>> light blinking sparsely, sporadically.
> 
> sounds like you installed the serial bootblocks but actually use the
> primary head as console.
> 

No, I see the kernel logging after the two minute pause.  I've selected BIOS
console in the installer.

peter