I have an old PIII 500 MHz HP Netfinity server running RH 9 that hangs when I reboot it. The screen says that it is restarting, but then it just hangs until I power it off and back on again. The last thing that I see from the shutdown sequence in /var/log/boot.log is: “portmap: portmap shutdown succeeded”. It used to reboot way back when it was running Red Hat 6.2, but it quit working somewhere in the RH 7.X series. I did a fresh install to RH 8.0 and that did not fix it. Now after upgrading to RH9 the problem still persists. Any ideas on how to fix it?
If it's any comfort I have a trackpad on my laptop that only worked during the installation of a particular release of Mandrake, and wouldn't work after the install or in any other linux release anywhere. The odd thing is that it works in windows and DOS, including FreeDOS. It's like Linux is trying to be too smart for it.
Which is probably very similar to the problem you're having. I'm sorry I can't be much more help than the following:
Try some of the boot options mentioned here <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-bootopts.html>. One of these might solve whatever the problem is. Don't just go using them willy-nilly of course. Look at what they mean and think about if one of them might help.
You're hardware might have gone bad since RH6.2. Maybe borrow a spare harddrive and try out 6.2 again just to prove it to yourself?
If portmap shutting down was the last thing that happened look in /etc/rc5.d/ to see where portmap comes in. The Shutdown scripts are in numerical order and start with S. So if portmap were S14portmap, then look at S15 and see what that is.
Just a hunch, but try another NIC, they go pretty cheap these days. Maybe just swap one with a friend for a minute.
Try Knoppix. Even if everything works and you learn nothing by it it's still fun to run a complete linux system off a CD just for the heck of it.
I hope something there is useful...
-- Andrew Jorgensen
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