New kernel doesn't complete booting

David dgboles at comcast.net
Sat Jan 10 17:16:33 UTC 2009


Antonio M wrote:
> 2009/1/10 David <dgboles at comcast.net>:
>> Antonio M wrote:
>>> kernel-2.6.29-0.24.rc0.git13.fc11.i686 doesn' complete booting on my
>>> i386 system and stops just after writing the very first lines on my
>>> screen.
>>> Anyone else with same experience???
>>
>> Unless they changed this when I was not looking the last line that
>> displays is the last 'event' in the loading order that succeeded. The
>> 'event' that failed does *not* display.
>>
>> Reboot with a different kernel and watch the screen the 'event' that
>> failed the first time will be shown right after the 'event' line were it
>> stopped before now. And then you know what to 'fix'.  ;-)
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>  David
>>
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> 
> the only lines that I get are:
> 
> Booting....
> root....
> [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3000, size 0x2b18f0]
> initrd /initrd.......
> [Linux-initrd @ 0x37cc5000, 0x329315 bytes]
> 
> and system freezes
> 
> Precedent kernel boot fine, I am writing from that machine.
> Tested also with 25 kernel from koij...
> this is my grub.conf but I do not see any problem..
> 
> 
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd0,0)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/sda
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora (2.6.29-0.25.rc0.git14.fc11.i686)
> 	root (hd0,0)
> 	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29-0.25.rc0.git14.fc11.i686 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> 	initrd /initrd-2.6.29-0.25.rc0.git14.fc11.i686.img
> title Fedora (2.6.29-0.19.rc0.git9.fc11.i686)
> 	root (hd0,0)
> 	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29-0.19.rc0.git9.fc11.i686 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> 	initrd /initrd-2.6.29-0.19.rc0.git9.fc11.i686.img
> title Fedora (2.6.28-0.140.rc9.git1.fc11.i686)
> 	root (hd0,0)
> 	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-0.140.rc9.git1.fc11.i686 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> 	initrd /initrd-2.6.28-0.140.rc9.git1.fc11.i686.img
> title Fedora (2.6.28-0.138.rc9.fc11.i686)
> 	root (hd0,0)
> 	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-0.138.rc9.fc11.i686 ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> 	initrd /initrd-2.6.28-0.138.rc9.fc11.i686.img


Does boot.log offer any hints?

-- 


  David




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