On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 04:14:41PM -0600, Erick Beck wrote:
-> Anybody know why a system would stall during the boot process at the
-> line
-> "Setting /boot/System.map to the current running kernel"?
Take a close look at /etc/rc.d/rc/sysinit. This is the file that is run
once the kernel is up and running. That command is toward the top. Try
inserting echo statements from just above the point where that message is
issued for several statements. Doing that will help you narrow down where
the script is actually failing.
For example, the next several statements are all executed
silently. Possibly they all suceed until the two mount statements. The
system could lock up there if the mount lock file (/etc/mtab~) is
present. I've had that happen; see my recent message on jaZip 0.22.
->
-> The machine in question has been running fine for several months.
-> I recently modified my ip-chains settings, so my first guess was that
-> I had simply firewalled out localhost. I booted up another distribution
-> on my 2nd hard drive, mounted the mandrake hard drive, removed
-> ip-chains from rc.local and checked all the host-deny files for both
-> ip-chains and tcp wrappers just to be sure and it still stalls out on
-> booting, so that didn't seem to be the problem. I get the same problem
-> when I try to boot the mandrake drive off a floppy into rescue mode
-> (boot: linux single root=/dev/hdd1 initrd= ) I can mount the mandrake
-> drive after booting from another distribution, so it doesn't seem to be
-> hardware related.
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit executes before /etc/rc.d/rc.local, so I doubt
ip-chains is your problem.
->
-> The machine has rebooted successfully several times this week in the
-> process of fine tuning the ip-chains script, so whatever changed has
-> only been in the last 2-3 days, not something I did weeks ago and
-> forgot about.
->
-> Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.
-> Erick
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