On 05/18/2014 11:38 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:00 PM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi All,
I have a rather "old" computer out in my shop with
SL6.5, x64 on it. It has run beautifully on Linux
for years and years.
Now, when it boots up, it freeze up at "udev".
Nothing else shows other than udev. I have to
pull the power plug and try again. Then it
works fine.
The symptom is reproducible with my Fedora Core 20
Live USB flash drive. Freeze up at the start of the
Fedora Tear Drop logo.
The RAID controller and everything else in BIOS
always works.
Any idea how to approach troubleshooting this?
I figure it is either the motherboard, the memory,
or the CPU.
Motherboard battery? Can you boot an Ubuntu Live CD, because those
tend to have more recent kernels than SL, and more stable ones than
Fedora.
Hi Niko,
Thank you! I don't think I have ever changed its
battery either.
This only happens when the machine has been off for a day
or more. So, you may be on to something. I will go into
bios and check to see it the date is all messed up. Maybe
change the $1.35 battery anyway, just because it is really
cheap to do. (I change those batteries for free for my
customers -- a nice customer relations gesture.)
I like to stick with Red Hat stuff, so I use Fedora's
live CD. Plus the Xfce folks are really nice about
adding utilities I want to it, as long as they are
small.
-T
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