On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:53:47PM -0500, William Hooper wrote: > > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx said: > [snip] > > 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. > > Does booting without the "quiet" option give a better idea of where it > stops? What SCSI hardware? IIRC there are some scsi controllers that > take a very long to initialize. We are not using the quiet option. The SCSI adapter is an Adaptec AIC 7890. WE tried using the aic7xxx_old driver instead of the aic7xxx driver since these are old machines but that had no visible effect on the booting behavior. > > > 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. > > Does booting without "rhgb" help? I have tried to remove the rhgb to no avail. Now that we have switched tot the smp kernel the /initrd has been unmounted. > > > The system logs shows nothing that indicates delay except the system > > keeps searching for ide drives that don't exist. > The ide searches are no longer a problem but to clarify what happens at boot, after choosing a kernel in the grub menu the screen blanks and the following lines appear: root (hd0,2) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinux-2.6.9-1.11_FC2.smp ro root=/dev/sda3 [Linux-bzimage,setup=0x1400 size=0x14f107] initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.11_FC@xxxxxxx [Linux - initrd@ 0x37fa3000,0x4c865 bytes] Then the booting stops for an hour with no disk action. Any further ideas? -- ======================================================================= Mummy dust to make me old; To shroud my clothes, the black of night; To age my voice, an old hag's cackle; To whiten my hair, a scream of fright; A blast of wind to fan my hate; A thunderbolt to mix it well -- Now begin thy magic spell! -- Walter Disney, "Snow White" ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
