Never-ending boot progress

[Todd Denniston]

Tim Clarke wrote, On 02/10/2009 08:55 AM:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tim Clarke
>> I've just put missing /etc/inittab and /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit files into
>> place - no difference.
>>
>> Then I've amended grub as you suggested: last line is 
>> "Switching to new
>> root and running init" Looks like this is the same clue as 
>> above ;-) The
>> init sequence is non-existent!
>>
>> Tim Clarke
> 
> Dang - anyone have any idea how to repair this, please?
> 
> Tim Clarke
>
Original message:
Tim Clarke wrote, On 02/09/2009 11:31 AM:
> Hi - can anyone help with an install issue pls?
> 
> On reboot after (several repeated!) seemingly good installs I just get
> the progress bar at the bottom of the screen that slowly becomes fully
> white. On pressing ESC i get four lines saying
> 	reading logical volumes
> 	found vol0...
> 	found vol1...
> 	2 volumes in group vol0 now active
> but no disk activity! I've left it overnight but its just hung there.
> Any additional diagnosis steps I can perform here?
> 
> Tim Clarke
> 

So I take it that the summary of the problem is:
'I do an install and when I reboot the system it just keeps rebooting, because 
the _install_failed_ to install all the stuff init needs to get going.'

[A standard Red Hat\Fedora fault, since RH6, when anaconda blows a fuse.]

Suggestion 1, see if the anaconda log[1] shows anything interesting.

Suggestion 2, see if there are any anaconda bugs that look similar in the 
bugzilla.
Suggestion 2.5, if the anaconda log[1] shows any failures or other interesting 
things, and there are no similar open bugs, consider opening a BZ Bug against 
anaconda and inserting the log in the Bug, or if there is a similar one add 
your comments and log to it.

Suggestion 3, somewhere in this thread you mentioned 'a failure to load 
agpgart', so I suggest trying to install in text mode, and change to X mode 
after install.


[1] IIRC /root/anaconda.log or /var/log/anaconda.[something] of the installed 
system, or /var/log/[something, I think messages] of the install system while 
installing.


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