On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 09:41 -0700, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > > > > At the shell if you type exit will the server go ahead and boot > > correctly? > > Yes. This is what happened at the clinic.
Sounds like the same bug I ran into. I bet the rootdelay option will help you get going since this worked. From what I have read it seems that most people running into this are running software raid or using logical volumes but it sounds like it is not limited to those configurations. FWIW the message you originally posted is included in the upgrade document for Debian at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#boot-timing > It's one of the things we suspected, but we pretty much figured the real > problem was the PCI card that runs the SATA hard drive. I don't have the > model number handy right now, but Keith Googled it yesterday and found > people were having problems with it about 10 years ago, which is the > rough age of the machine. My computer is old and used but not used up so I for sure understand. I have not had any new problems once I added the rootdelay=2 option to /etc/grub/default and then ran update-grub so that the grub configuration files got updated. My computer runs Debian and what is really strange is that it had work for years without running into this problem until Wheezy was released and the 3.8.x kernel made it into sid. I can still boot the old 3.2.x kernel but the 3.8 series requires the delay in order for it to work. > When I get some free time this week I'll try your recommendation and see > what I get. Hopefully it will work for you. -- David _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
