Anyone else having problems with 4.2 with the boot hanging at Initializing hardware... storage network ? Booting to single user or typing 'I' for interactive startup does not help. Not a timeout problem - hangs 'forever' - days at least. Did a complete reinstall and rebooted OK, did updates and the boot started hanging again. Same problem with either the 4.2 standard installed kernel-2.6.9-22 or the updated 2.6.9-22.0.1.106.unsupported kernel. May be related to audio as that is the next thing to be initialized after network. Looks like BZ 172920 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172920 Both Knoppix 4.0.2 and Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 live-CD distros seem to work OK on the same hardware, as have RH 7.3-FC1/2/3, WBEL3, and CentOS 4/4.1. The problematic system is an IBM A21p notebook with (according to Knoppix lspci) Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 using module cs46xx. Doesn't really need sound as it is currently acting as a print-server for a color Laser, but haven't figured out how to get it to boot under CentOS to work the problem. Will try mounting the disk from a Live-CD boot and play with config files next. Phil
On 12/1/05, Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov> wrote:> Anyone else having problems with 4.2 with the boot hanging at > > Initializing hardware... storage network > > ? > > Booting to single user or typing 'I' for interactive startup does not > help. Not a timeout problem - hangs 'forever' - days at least. Did a > complete reinstall and rebooted OK, did updates and the boot started > hanging again. Same problem with either the 4.2 standard installed > kernel-2.6.9-22 or the updated 2.6.9-22.0.1.106.unsupported kernel. > > May be related to audio as that is the next thing to be initialized > after network. Looks like BZ 172920 >Odd as it sounds, this happened to me a while back and it was a hardware issue. I had a bad audio cable in the system that wasn't getting a proper connection due to a severed wire. I chalked it up to me not checking my hardware properly on build.>-- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
On 12/1/05, Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov> wrote:> > Anyone else having problems with 4.2 with the boot hanging at > > Initializing hardware... storage network > > ? > > Booting to single user or typing 'I' for interactive startup does not > help. Not a timeout problem - hangs 'forever' - days at least. Did a > complete reinstall and rebooted OK, did updates and the boot started > hanging again. Same problem with either the 4.2 standard installed > kernel-2.6.9-22 or the updated 2.6.9-22.0.1.106.unsupported kernel. > > May be related to audio as that is the next thing to be initialized > after network. Looks like BZ 172920 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172920 > > Both Knoppix 4.0.2 and Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 live-CD distros seem to work > OK on the same hardware, as have RH 7.3-FC1/2/3, WBEL3, and CentOS > 4/4.1. The problematic system is an IBM A21p notebook with (according > to Knoppix lspci) Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 using module cs46xx. > > Doesn't really need sound as it is currently acting as a print-server > for a color Laser, but haven't figured out how to get it to boot under > CentOS to work the problem. Will try mounting the disk from a Live-CD > boot and play with config files next. > > Phil > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >I had a similar problem after loading updates. It turns out that there was a bug or something so if you were using LVM, it hung the system. If you aren't using LVM, it seemed to be okay. There was a program that somebody suggested be deinstalled in order to fix it. -- If the sane say the insane are insane, What if the sane are insane? Would that make the insane sane? Explains a lot in Washington! --E. Croft -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051212/69161f33/attachment-0001.html>
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 14:00 -0500, Edward Croft wrote:> I had a similar problem after loading updates. It turns out that there > was a bug or something so if you were using LVM, it hung the system. > If you aren't using LVM, it seemed to be okay. There was a program > that somebody suggested be deinstalled in order to fix it.Must be a different bug. The system with the problem is not using LVM. Phil