> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Mike Armour wrote:
>
>> Greets all,
>>
>> my newly installed hangs (completely ctrl-c and the three finger salute
>> don't work) on "Starting optimisation for hda" and "Starting optimsation on
>> hdc" upon boot.
>> a reinstall hasn't done any good and from the boot disk i'm can't figure out
>> how to pass it -s (or is it -S?) for a single user boot ... any ideas on why
>> it hangs ??
>>
>> Cheers
>> Mike
>>
>
> it's looseing it's interupt they do generaly recover, but use
> 'linux single' or if it's really being difficult
> 'linux single init=/bin/bash', if you use the latter you'll ave to remount
> the driver read/write. Then edit/comment out the hdparm lines in
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
>
> --
> MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
> --Axalon
>
>
yup , that fixed it thanks (i actually figured it out a few hours after i
posted the msg... you can't ctrl-c the hdparm bit but you can dump out at
rebuilding rpm database). My HD's are a few years old (3 or so) and that was
a bit much for them and hanging the system (after 5 hours or so a ctrl -c
still wasn't possible)
