Re: failure to boot

James Wilkinson suggested:

You might as well switch back the # IDE: it won't make much difference.

Take a look at lines 209 to 216:

echo -n $" audio"

# Everything else (duck and cover)
for module in $other ; do
    load_module $module
done

echo -n $" done"

"echo" displays things on screen. You can see the "audio" coming up, but
not the "done". (They're using pretty massive indirection here, which
is what's getting me confused).

So can you put something like
echo "other is $other"
at about line 209. And take a look at what else is being loaded.

Done that. It displays:

"other is snd-intel8x0m i8xx_tco hw_random uhci-hcd uhci-hcd yenta_socket yenta_socket yenta_socket"

But then it hangs.

Actually, you might try just commenting out lines 212 to 214: depending
on exactly what is in $other, you'll probably lose some functionality,
but you might get further.

Done that (left the echo "other is $other" in). It gets past the "other etc." line I wrote above, then prints
[ok] done

Then flashes up some more messages which are too fast for me to see (is there a way of slowing this down or scrolling through it afterwards?), then goes into that graphical launcher with the image of a computer. It hangs at the line

"Starting pcmcia:"

That made me somewhat suspicious and I took the D-Link DWL-660 wireless card out of the pcmcia slot and repeated the procedure. However, same result. By the way, I don't have the machine connected to the internet while doing all that, I hope that is acceptable.

Failing that, around there you can put
echo "got here"
lines pretty well where you want. See if you can tell exactly which line
causes the boot script to fail.

I added 'echo' statement so that the script now reads:

---------------------------
# Everything else (duck and cover)
echo -n " done that number 1"
for module in $other ; do
echo -n " done that number 2"
    load_module $module >/dev/null 2>&1
echo -n " done that number 3"
done
echo -n " done that number 4"

echo -n $" done"
----------------------------

When starting up, it prints 'done that number 1', then 5 times 'done that number 2 done that number 3', and then another 'done that number 2' before it hangs. By my count that is when it gets to the first 'yenta-socket' in $module. What is 'yenta-socket' and what does it do?

Thanks for your help.

Gerhard