[NTLUG:Discuss] Homemade machine locking up at swap

[Kevin Brannen]

gin wrote:
> 
> Oops, sorry:
> 
> I was running the latest Slackware (which I picked up the the NTLUG meeting
> on qmail - kernel 2.2.13 I think), but I also installed Red Hat 6.1 (and
> 6.0 b/c 6.1 locked smack in the middle of the installation presumably b/c
> of the same problem) to see if there was any difference. The same problem
> occurred on both.
> 
> My partitioning is as follows:
> 
> The following are primary paritions
> /dev/hda1 (1024M)       System (from cylinder 1 to whatever is +1024 MB)
> /dev/hda2 (+127M)       Here's my swap (out of the 1024 I guess - is that
> perhaps the problem?)

Sorry, but the size is almost useless in this problem.  The cylinder
numbers are critical; without them we can't help you.

As root, do:   /sbin/sfdisk -l /dev/hda
look at the start & end columns.  Those should be the cylinder numbers. 
In fact, posting the entire output of sfdisk may help someone help you. 
Or at least allow us to help you eliminate various things as problems.
:-)

In cases like this, you need to reduce the machine to the absolute
barest hardware needed to boot (remove all those extra cards if there
are any), and get that working.  Then add the extra stuff back.  And if
it breaks then, obviously one (or more) of those components are bad.

Kevin