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HELP!! Linux Hangs during boot

HELP!! Linux Hangs during boot

Post by Jess » Sat, 09 Sep 2000 14:42:57



Hi, I have installed RedHat Linux 6.0 on my pc. It has been working fine
(for about a year now) without sound (I didn't bother setting it up) until
recently, when I decided to try to configure my sound card.  I used the
'sndconfig' program, and during setup I decided it was too much trouble (for
now) to set up, so I cancelled. Everything worked fine until I tried to
reboot Linux again. It tries to load the midi module (which it didn't do
before) and just stops...I can't get into Linux!

I just need to get into linux...can anyone help me? is there a way of
disabling some of what it tries to load? I have a boot disk, but all that
does is boot into linux, and still gets stuck while loading the midi
module...I don't think I have a rescue disk...please, any suggestions will
be greatly appreciated. Please send all your solutions/suggestions to

 
 
 
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HELP!! Linux Hangs during boot

Post by Eric » Sat, 09 Sep 2000 18:03:16



> Hi, I have installed RedHat Linux 6.0 on my pc. It has been working fine
> (for about a year now) without sound (I didn't bother setting it up) until
> recently, when I decided to try to configure my sound card.  I used the
> 'sndconfig' program, and during setup I decided it was too much trouble (for
> now) to set up, so I cancelled. Everything worked fine until I tried to
> reboot Linux again. It tries to load the midi module (which it didn't do
> before) and just stops...I can't get into Linux!

> I just need to get into linux...can anyone help me? is there a way of
> disabling some of what it tries to load? I have a boot disk, but all that
> does is boot into linux, and still gets stuck while loading the midi
> module...I don't think I have a rescue disk...please, any suggestions will
> be greatly appreciated. Please send all your solutions/suggestions to


I'm not sure about RH 6.0 , but at least later versions offer you the
interactive mode during boot (hit i IIRC). Then you can choose not to
load the modules.

Eric

 
 
 
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1. Hang during boot... please help?

I'm trying to install Linux on a 486DX2/66 with 16MB RAM, IDE hard disk with
more than 1024 cylinders, PCI+VLB+ISA mainboard (I know this is strongly not
recomended, but the shop said they would replace it for a VLB+ISA if it fails
to work with Linux), Soundblaster with on board Adaptec 152x, #9 GXE64 with
4MB VRAM (PCI), NE2000 ethernet card, SCSI CD-ROM drive (Matsushita) and an HP
DAT drive.

I have used the October Infomagic CD-ROM which contains Slackware 2.0.1 with
kernel 1.1.50. The boot disk contains kernel 1.0.9 and I use "hd=1048,16,63
aha152x=0x340,11,7,1" as the kernel command line. The whole thing boots fine,
I partition the drive with fdisk (keeping under cylinder 1024 for the root
partition just to make sure) and install a minimum config with setup. I add
the append="..." and linear statements to the lilo.conf and install it on the
MBR (I also tried a floppy).

When I boot off the hard disk, the kernel is loaded fine, it finds the serial
ports (I have 4), lp_init does it's stuff and it arrives at the "Calibrating
delay loop... ok - 33.22 BogoMips" (it seems to me this should be 66.xx !?! )
and then it hangs!!

I then borrowed the December Infomagic CD-ROM which contains Slackware 2.1.0
with kernel 1.1.54. The boot disk also contains kernel 1.1.54 and guess
what... it hangs after the "Calibrating delay loop... ok - 33.22 BogoMips"! So
this time I can't even try installing anything. At least it seems that it
wasn't something I was doing wrong in the installtion process.

Why doesn't it work with the newer kernels ? Is it the PCI based mainboard
which is causing the problem ?

Please help me... thanks in advance.

 ..Yves

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