On 09/13/2011 12:21 PM, Paul Jochum wrote:
Hi All:
On a SUN x4150 (that previously ran SL 5x fine), I have tried installing
SL 6 (and 6.1 and 6.x). For each of my SL 6 installations, the system
will hang during the boot at "Starting system logger [ OK ],
and not accept any keyboard input (I can't do a CNTL-ALT-F2, for
example, to bring up another console and see what is wrong).
Scenario:
New install, either through the GUI for from Kickstart.
If I select option "minimal", then the system boots fine. However, if I
select an option with a GUI (like "Virtualization"), then I run into
this problem.
Any suggestions on what to check?
thanks,
Paul Jochum
paul.jochum @ alcatel-lucent.com
Hi Paul,
This one sounds tough. I'm not too sure I know how troubleshoot this
one..... but I have a few guesses.
If I were to guess, I'd aim towards plymoth simply because, like the
system logger, it starts early in the boot process, but it operates a
bit differently when an X server is installed.
You might try removing rhgb from the kernel boot line (in grub
itself or /boot/grub/menu.lst) in the more massive install and see if
that helps.
You could also try adding vga=791 to the kernel boot line and see
if that gets you anywhere.
Removing quiet from the boot line has sometimes provided hints
where the system hangs at boot (though this was mostly back in the early
days of Linux wireless where the kernel would hickup a bit when those
modules got loaded).
Sadly with it failing so early in the boot process the VTTYs wont be
setup yet, so its a bit hard to diagnose the problem..... I've found
NUMLOCK and CAPSLOCK to be helpful in seeing if the system has locked up
(these days ), and SCROLLLOCK should let you use PageUP to look at the
text that went zooming past to see if anything interesting is afoot.
Odds are I'm on the completely wrong track here, but this is at least
some place to start.
Pat
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Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer
