Bret Hughes wrote:
> Duane Clark wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Huiyuan Ma wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,I have a funny problem while booting the redhat
> > > 7.Whenever it boots,it shows an error message of
> > > 'loading error' and stops,but if I strike the return
> > > key and try several times,it simply works.Why?
> >
> > I cannot say why this is happening, but I have the exact same symptoms
> > on a Compaq running RH 6.2. I originally blamed LILO, and upgraded to
> > the latest and greatest, but it made no difference. Since then I have
> > interpreted the error as occuring after LILO has finished. So no
> > resolution yet, though it always boots, eventually.
>
> anything weird in /var/log/dmesg?
>
> I have never seen this but there is bound to be something you can find.
>
> If it is after lilo loads then perhaps a module issue?
>
> Bret
The normal things displayed are:
Loading Linux ....followed by a sequence of dots
Uncompressing Linux
..boot messages..
The place it fails (for me) is when printing out the sequence of dots,
and the number of dots printed out before failure appears to be
completely random. If it gets to the "Uncompressing Linux" message, then
the boot always completes normally. I really have not investigated what
is going on during that sequence of dots. Though I think, since the
kernel is not yet uncompressed, that no logging is done (and dmesg gets
overwritten by the successful boot - it looks normal).
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