[NTLUG:Discuss] MDK 10.1 Boot prob

[Greg Edwards]

I've got a new install of Mandrake 10.1 (kernel 2.6) that locks up right 
after the root FS is remounted in R/W mode.  On the boot sequence page, 
that operation returns OK and no more progress.  The swap mount should be 
next but it doesn't display the operation being done message.  I can run 
the rescue w/o any problems and mount all of the partitions under /mnt.

This is a system that has run MDK9.1 (kernel 2.4) since it was first 
released.  I have another workstation that uses the same MB and CPU as 
this one and it runs fine.  The biggest diff between the 2 is a SCSI (in 
the broke system) and different video cards.

AMD Athlon 650 (K7)
ASUS K7M MB
Maxtor IDE (MBR, /, /boot, and swap)
Seagate SCSI (Adaptec controller)

The swap on the non booting system is 1024M while the workstation is 512M. 
  However, dropping the swap partition in fstab makes no difference. 
Dropping the SCSI drive in fstab makes no difference.  The acpi and apic 
settings don't make any difference.

I've spent several hours on Mandrake, Google, and several Linux forums 
looking and nobody seems to have logged this problem.  Well, at least I 
can't find it.  I'll keep looking, but if anyone has seen this, HELP!!!

-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
Custom software for an off the rack world
http://consult.nas-inet.com