akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx said: > 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. Silly question, did you rebuild the initrd after making the change? [snip] >> 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. So you have having the boot problem with both the uniprocessor and SMP kernels? [snip] > Any further ideas? Not really, just grasping at straws. Have you tried FC3? -- William Hooper
