Re: [Sheflug] Boot messages

["Ian Wright" <nospam [at] iw63.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hi Alex,

Yes, I'm puzzled by its antics. The computer also has the 2.2.18 kernel on
with rt3.0 and that works fine. It definitely is hanging - I've left it for
an hour and it still doesn't twitch. I am assuming that it must be something
to do with 'lo' as it stops half way along that line - doesn't get to the
'OK' at the end. On the 2.2.18 boot, the next message I get is Portmapper.
I've just done another fresh rebuild and taken out most things which didn't
look essential and I have exactly the same problem again - wierd!

I'm not sure whether it would be worth pulling the net card out or replacing
it with another type to see if that makes a difference but I can't see why
it should. The present card is an old 3Com 509 which works OK with the
2.2.18 build and this is the only card I have setup as a 'yes' in Xconfig,
although I did set others as modules in case I want to add another in.
Perhaps I'll just do another compile and leave ALL the net stuff out to see
if that helps.

Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield  UK
www.iw63.freeserve.co.uk
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: 18 August 2001 12:28
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Boot messages


> On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 09:53:04AM +0100, Ian Wright wrote:
> > The installation is based initially on the RedHat distro but this kernel
is
> > built from virgin sources from ftp.kernel.org and the RTAI site. I am
> > guessing from what I have learned now that the problem probably is with
the
> > network stuff as the machine hangs immediately after saying 'bringing up
> > interface lo' and before it gives me the 'OK' on that. Initially I'll
try
> > taking out the eth0 entry in conf.modules (or modules.conf whichever)
and
> > see if it will get any further then.
>
> Are you definitely sure it's hanging? After lo I would expect eth0 - so
it's
> concievable that the machine is waiting to bring that up (if you had it
> configured for DHCP and there were no servers, that would cause a long
pause
> which might appear as a hang for example).
>
> You might find it worth turning it on and leaving it for ten minutes. If
it
> hasn't booted by then, it's hung ;) But, it sounds like the kernel has
> booted fine, in which case it sounds strange that the problem would be
> caused by a faulty kernel.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.
>
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