[NTLUG:Discuss] MDK 10.1 Boot prob

[Rick Cook]

On Thursday 14 April 2005 12:06, Greg Edwards 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.

Is the rescue process using the same kernel you have on the installed 
system? Does it use the same initrd? Are any of the partitions you are 
mounting under the rescue boot from the SCSI drive?

>
> 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.

Have you tried removing the SCSI controller?

>
> 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!!!