Re: hang on bootup
Here's the latest... On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 03:06:59PM -0700, Jason and Heather wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 10:26:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my system, this line results in a 10 second freeze up, and then Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! Thanks for the info. I don't have a SCSI card in my computer, so I'm not too surprised it isn't working. That appears to be it. Someone compiled a bare-bones kernel for me that managed to get past this problem. I don't think some of the other options were the same though, because after booting, it gave me: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem). VFS: Cannot open root device 03:41 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:41 It looks like it might be trying to mount the root on , but how it got that, I don't know. Any suggestions? If possible, I'd like to keep the standard kernel and just tell it to skip probing for SCSI devices, since I know that's the problem now. jason -- The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody. BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
hang on bootup
I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging hard right after the line: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 I've found a couple other reports of this in Dejanews, but no answers to the problem... jason -- The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody. BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hang on bootup
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 03:15:38AM -0700, Jason and Heather wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging hard right after the line: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 I've found a couple other reports of this in Dejanews, but no answers to the problem... It's probably not the md driver which is hanging (it's fairly harmless hardware wise) but whatever comes after it. I don't know exactly what that may be, but it could be a SCSI adapter, network card, .. Which of these do you have? You might need to give parameters to the kernel to tell it their addresses etc to avoid hangs. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hang on bootup
mine does this too but onmine if I wait about 5 minutes and let it sit there, sooner or later it will skip past that portion and go on into linux.. ---Jason and Heather [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging hard right after the line: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 I've found a couple other reports of this in Dejanews, but no answers to the problem... jason -- The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody. BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hang on bootup
On Mon, Dec 29, 1997 at 01:18:41AM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 03:15:38AM -0700, Jason and Heather wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging hard right after the line: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 I've found a couple other reports of this in Dejanews, but no answers to the problem... It's probably not the md driver which is hanging (it's fairly harmless hardware wise) but whatever comes after it. I don't know exactly what that may be, but it could be a SCSI adapter, network card, .. Which of these do you have? You might need to give parameters to the kernel to tell it their addresses etc to avoid hangs. The stupid thing is, I have neither. (Even my CDROM is IDE, and now that's not working under Windows, either.) I let it sit for half an hour to see if it'd finally wake up, and nothing. Is there any way to tell loadlin to throw linux into a verbose mode that might tell me _what_ it's scanning? This is really annoying. jason -- The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody. BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hang on bootup
On my system, this line results in a 10 second freeze up, and then Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! It then continues to boot normally. Perhaps you didn't wait long enough. Or, maybe you have a device that doesn't want to be probed (I solve this by opening the case, unplugging all the cards except for the video card, and then putting them back one by one until I run into the same problem). Good luck, Brandon On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Jason and Heather wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on my Digital P166, but it's hanging hard right after the line: md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4 MAX_REAL=8 I've found a couple other reports of this in Dejanews, but no answers to the problem... - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: hang on bootup
On Sun, Dec 28, 1997 at 10:26:13AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my system, this line results in a 10 second freeze up, and then Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! Thanks for the info. I don't have a SCSI card in my computer, so I'm not too surprised it isn't working. It then continues to boot normally. Perhaps you didn't wait long enough. I waited half an hour... :) Or, maybe you have a device that doesn't want to be probed (I solve this by opening the case, unplugging all the cards except for the video card, and then putting them back one by one until I run into the same problem). Tried that earlier this morning, with no success. But at least now I know. Someone has offered to compile a kernel for me that has no SCSI drivers, and hopefully that will take care of the problem. jason -- The man who marries a modern woman marries a woman who expects to vote like a man, smoke like a man, have her hair cut like a man, and go without restrictions and without chaperones and obey nobody. BOBBED HAIR - John R. Rice, 1941 http://www.primenet.com/~steiners/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
