On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:50:27PM -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > WE are attempting to configure a SCSI machine by loading a running > system from a machine with only ide drives. Of course we have changed > the grub to access SCSI drives. Also changed the fstab. The machine is > a dual processor machine which is all SCSI. > > Now the machine when booting displays the FC2 grub choice screen. > After the choice is made the kernel is accessed but then the machine > goes into what seems to be an indefinite hang. But actually, after a > half hour or an hour (we have not measured this accurately since it > took so long) the machine continues its boot. Now in looking at the > system files on the machine we find the strange fact that the /initrd > file still seems to contain the files of the ram disk. It is not > emptied as it should have been. > > The system logs shows nothing that indicates delay except the system > keeps searching for ide drives that don't exist. > We have done this process copying the system in this way several times > before with earlier versions of linux but not we can't make it work. > > Can any one suggest anyplace we can look to identify the problem? > -- Well I am moving slowly towards solving the slow boot problem. Let me add some facts another queston. The boot takes over an hour. All that is produced after choosing a kernel in the grub menu is a dispaly od the kernel line chosen and the initrd file chosen. And then for a hour the machine sits ther with no disk activity what so ever. No once booted the display of demsg seems normal until ther is an APIC error (40) on CPU 1 Now this machine has two Pentium III processors. Are not Pentium III ipricessors P5's. If so Local APIC is disabled on p5-s. Is this a problem or am I spinning my wheels? -- ======================================================================= Nowlan's Theory: He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
