On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:24:07AM -0500, dave N wrote: > dave N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi: > > I've installed Etch r1 and the only real thing I've done to the system is > updated the system, though during the update it updated the kernel to the > same kernel that was installed during the installation (used the medium to > try and get more control over Grub install). > > The computer is about 2 years old, dual CPU Xeons, with 2 SATA drives and 2 > SCSI drives. The system has not been highly used over the past 2 years. The > system drive where Debian is installed is on a SATA 36 Gb Raptor that is just > for the OS, drive was reformatted during install using ext3. > > During boot the system appears to find all the drives OK when I am reading > as fast as I can, but then I get the following (from a photo of the screen > messages) > > Begin: Mounting root file system... ... > Begin: running /scripts/local-top ... > ide0: I/O resource 0x1F0-0x1F7 not free. > ide0: ports already in use, skipping probe > ide1: I/O resource 0x170-0x177 not free. > ide1: ports already in use, skipping probe > Done. > Begin: Waiting for root file system... ... > > And it stops right there. 0's above may be 8's, can't tell from the picture.
If you wait long enough (at least 30 seconds, maybe a couple minutes, I can't remember) you should get dropped to a busybox shell. Then look at /scripts/local-top and see what it's trying to run there. That may provide a clue. Also, in the busybox shell, look at what modules are inserted and see if you've got some conflict there. > > I booted with Knoppix live and there is nothing in /var/log/messages, none > of the logs appear to have changed since I last booted 2 days ago. I have not > run fsck or anything else on this yet. you might try chrooting into the system and rebuilding the initrd from the knoppix boot. also use knoppix to compare modules... hth A
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