latest updates don't boot

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Fri Jul 21 17:26:28 UTC 2006


tomhorsley at adelphia.net schrieb:

>I haven't had time to do much investigation on this yet, but last night I genned FC5
>from the DVD, it came up OK, then I downloaded all the latest updates which
>got me to 2.6.17-1.2157 and now the boot never seems to finish - it just stops
>printing messages really early (possibly around the time it normally switches
>to the graphical boot which I hadn't yet turned off). The disk doesn't seem to
>be running anymore and a reasonable amount of waiting didn't change anything.
>It isn't totally frozen - I can still hit return, and the cursor moves down one line,
>and Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots it.
>
>Sound familiar to anyone?
>  
>
If you search the list archive of the last 1 or 2 weeks: yes. Reports 
about hanging boot at nash. There are bugzilla tickets about it.

>I plan to boot in rescue mode and set the runlevel to 3 and turn off the graphical
>boot and see if there is anything useful laying around in dmesg or the X log.
>Anything else be good to poke?
>
>This is on a asus P4C800-E with the disk on the onboard promise controller
>(the faster intel sata ports are already used up with another OS).
>  
>
Do you use dm-raid?

Alexander




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