[NTLUG:Discuss] MDK 10.1 Boot prob

[Jack Snodgrass]

My system had problems booting... don't recall exactly if they 
were the same but they were similar... it would boot up 
and at one point in the boot sequence after an OK, it 
would freeze. The caps lock did not alter the caps led 
on the keyboard... it was dead. 

In my case, it turned out to be incompatible memory 
( I added some memory that was just sitting on my 
desk ) . The machine would do the BIOS stuff find and 
start to boot, but then it would lock with no warnings 
or errors. 


jack 

On 4/14/05, Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
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