CentOS - Feb 2006 - Pressing "I" for interactive start-up does nothing

Greetings,

I'm trying to convert a Dell Inspiron 210B laptop into a sandbox using 
Centos4.2.  The install went without incident but rebooting (starting) 
the first time the system hangs at "Initializing storage network" then
says "disabling IRQ# 11" then goes no further.

I've tried to press "i" and "I" to enter into
interactive start-up (so I
can check the log file) but I can't get interative start-up to turn over.

Ideas?

Thanks,
Michael

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Michael Chinn, CFO wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm trying to convert a Dell Inspiron 210B laptop into a sandbox using 
> Centos4.2.  The install went without incident but rebooting (starting) 
> the first time the system hangs at "Initializing storage network"
then
> says "disabling IRQ# 11" then goes no further.
> 
> I've tried to press "i" and "I" to enter into
interactive start-up (so I
> can check the log file) but I can't get interative start-up to turn
over.
Patience is a virtue!! Press i one time and one time only after you see the
banner. You only get a few seconds and pressing it multiple times does not
help and seems (although I have not looked at the code) to reverse the first
i pressed.

HTH,

Tom Diehl		tdiehl at rogueind.com		Spamtrap address mtd123 at rogueind.com

Am Mi, den 08.02.2006 schrieb Michael Chinn, CFO um 23:57:
> I'm trying to convert a Dell Inspiron 210B laptop into a sandbox using 
> Centos4.2.  The install went without incident but rebooting (starting) 
> the first time the system hangs at "Initializing storage network"
then
> says "disabling IRQ# 11" then goes no further.
> 
> I've tried to press "i" and "I" to enter into
interactive start-up (so I
> can check the log file) but I can't get interative start-up to turn
over.
> Michael

If at boot time you already know that you want an interactive start,
then you can at grub boot screen press "a" (without quotes) and append
"confirm" (without quotes) to the kernel line.

Alexander


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