Hi, all It happens very rarely that the system hangs while booting.
The last message on console is : Activating device mapper.. I dont' get any oops and the system works without any problem if it boots. :) uname -a gives 2.6.18.8-0.5-default #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:17:53 UTC 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Let me know if you need more information, with the steps to generate that info. :) I am pasting a few lines which fall above and below the mapper activation as shown by dmesg for a successful boot. Thanks Sri Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0cf0, PCI irq 169 Socket status: 30000007 pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0xa000 - 0xdfff cs: IO port probe 0xa000-0xdfff: clean. pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe4300000 - 0xe7ffffff pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe0000000 - 0xe3ffffff ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 82 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:03:00.0 to 64 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 82 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64 ipw3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7 cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean. cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. ipw3945: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On: Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work. Adding 1004020k swap on /dev/sda7. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1004020k ##Here I get the "activating device mapper" on console## device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] loop: loaded (max 8 devices) ReiserFS: sda6: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: sda6: using ordered data mode reiserfs: using flush barriers ReiserFS: sda6: journal params: device sda6, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: sda6: checking transaction log (sda6) ReiserFS: sda6: Using r5 hash to sort names NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W MODULE]. NTFS volume version 3.1. ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (off-line) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present) ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB] Jats do it Try the revolutionary next-gen Yahoo! Mail. Go to http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/dc/landing - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/