problems booting IBM servers with 2.6.32 kernel

2011-06-17 Thread D G Teed
Thought I would share this solution/workaround. I had a kernel dump happening following the kernel update to 2.6.32 for Debian squeeze on an IBM x345. It looked like this problem: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26692 I tried removing 'quiet' from the kernel args but it simply

Re: Problems booting installation CDs

2009-08-23 Thread Felix Zielcke
is a few lines from the bottom of the screen. Other Linux distros (Ubuntu, Knoppix) have problems booting too. The strange thing is, Windows boots just fine, and I get the same error booting Debian's CD in Virtualbox. I am running: Mobo: Biostar TA770 A2+ SE Add nopat to the boot options

Problems booting installation CDs

2009-08-22 Thread Isaac Freeman
) have problems booting too. The strange thing is, Windows boots just fine, and I get the same error booting Debian's CD in Virtualbox. I am running: Mobo: Biostar TA770 A2+ SE -- Isaac Freeman memotype (at) gmail.com The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human

Problems booting Debian on an external USB disk on a MacBook

2008-06-20 Thread Peter Karlsson
Hi! I am trying to install Debian Lenny on my MacBook, by way of an external USB hard disk and Refit. I have followed the instructions given in http://ghaint.no-ip.org/~k2/debian/mbp-usb.html and succeeded in booting from the i386 net-install for Lenny Beta 2, created partitions and installed

Re: problems booting

2008-03-24 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andrew Reid wrote: On Sunday 23 March 2008 01:57, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I assume I'm running into problems with udev not naming the devices consistently but am not quite sure of my diagnosis or how to fix it if that is the problem. I don't think udev rules will fix it, since

problems booting

2008-03-23 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi All, I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. The hard drives are all sata Raptors with 4 of the 5 drives in a RAID 10 array. I'm running Etch. The problem I'm having is an intermittent one with booting. I

Re: problems booting

2008-03-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. The hard drives are all sata Raptors with 4 of the 5 drives in a RAID 10 array. I'm running Etch. The

Re: problems booting

2008-03-23 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. The hard drives are all sata Raptors with 4 of the 5 drives in a RAID 10 array.

Re: problems booting

2008-03-23 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 05:14:44PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. The hard

Re: problems booting

2008-03-23 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 23 March 2008 01:57, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I assume I'm running into problems with udev not naming the devices consistently but am not quite sure of my diagnosis or how to fix it if that is the problem. I don't think udev rules will fix it, since the udev rules are on the root

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-29 Thread I.E.Broadbent
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 08:29 +0900, David wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2007 22:24, I.E.Broadbent wrote: Anyone have any comments or suggestions please. Anyone heard of any problems with the CPU's or Boards mentioned above? Thanks, Ian Hi, I got a

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-29 Thread I.E.Broadbent
AN UPDATE: Especially to Thierry, Dave, Doug, ... some further news I have just had a note from the chap that supplies my bits'n'bobs (BTW ...anybody know of a reliable UK wholesaler of medium quantities for DRAM/Processors/hardware/etc?) ... he has spotted (must get myself a new pair of

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-29 Thread David
I.E.Broadbent wrote: AN UPDATE: Especially to Thierry, Dave, Doug, ... some further news I have just had a note from the chap that supplies my bits'n'bobs (BTW ...anybody know of a reliable UK wholesaler of medium quantities for DRAM/Processors/hardware/etc?) ... he has spotted (must get

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-29 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 07:23:24PM +0900, David wrote: I.E.Broadbent wrote: AN UPDATE: Especially to Thierry, Dave, Doug, ... some further news I have just had a note from the chap that supplies my bits'n'bobs (BTW ...anybody know of a reliable UK wholesaler of medium quantities for

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-29 Thread David
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: snip Note that I run an Athlon64 3800+ with one 1 GB stick. Runs just fine. 4GB is not a minimum size There are a lot of CPUs around now that people are installing into things like personal PCs and word processor/spreadsheet work stations that will operate just fine

Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-28 Thread I.E.Broadbent
I built two boxes last week... both (almost) identical CPU - Both AMD Socket-AM2 64bit Dual Core (one 4300 and one 4600) Memory - both identical - 4 x 1gig modules per motherboard Motherboard - both identical - Gigabyte S-Series M61P-S3 Both using onboard Network and Graphics One machine

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-28 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 22:24, I.E.Broadbent wrote: Anyone have any comments or suggestions please. Anyone heard of any problems with the CPU's or Boards mentioned above? Thanks, Ian Hi, I got a similar problem, which was soulve by increasing the voltage on the memories sticks. No

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-28 Thread David
Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2007 22:24, I.E.Broadbent wrote: Anyone have any comments or suggestions please. Anyone heard of any problems with the CPU's or Boards mentioned above? Thanks, Ian Hi, I got a similar problem, which was soulve by increasing the voltage on the

Re: Problems booting AMD64 Dual Core

2007-11-28 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:24:49PM +, I.E.Broadbent wrote: I built two boxes last week... both (almost) identical CPU - Both AMD Socket-AM2 64bit Dual Core (one 4300 and one 4600) Memory - both identical - 4 x 1gig modules per motherboard Motherboard - both identical - Gigabyte

Problems booting

2006-12-28 Thread Jaume Alonso
Hello, I'm a Debian testing user. A few days ago I recompiled the kernel (2.6.18) and I installed it in the Debian way (by creating a .deb package of the kernel and installing it). But I've got a problem: when I boot the system with the new kernel, appears a lot of times the message modprobe:

Re: Problems booting

2006-12-28 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Jaume Alonso wrote: Hello, I'm a Debian testing user. A few days ago I recompiled the kernel (2.6.18) and I installed it in the Debian way (by creating a .deb package of the kernel and installing it). But I've got a problem: when I boot the system with the new kernel, appears a lot of times

Re: Problems booting

2006-12-28 Thread cassiano
Try to run as root: # update-modules and see if it goes away! Cassiano Leal Marko Randjelovic wrote: Jaume Alonso wrote: Hello, I'm a Debian testing user. A few days ago I recompiled the kernel (2.6.18) and I installed it in the Debian way (by creating a .deb package of the kernel and

Re: Problems booting

2006-12-28 Thread ss11223
On Dec 28, 9:00 am, Jaume Alonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm a Debian testing user. A few days ago I recompiled the kernel (2.6.18) and I installed it in the Debian way (by creating a .deb package of the kernel and installing it). But I've got a problem: when I boot the system with

Problems booting from SCSI disk (with LVM2)

2006-06-19 Thread Urs Thuermann
I have installed Debian testing using the binary-1 CD. After fiddling with the grub install (see below [*]) the kernel-2.6.15-1-i686-smp boots and starts from the initramfs. The initramfs initializes among other things the SCSI subsystem (AIC7899), device mapper and LVM2, and my ethernet card

Problems booting after dist-upgrade

2005-12-14 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Nach einem dist-upgrade mit neuem 2.6er Kernel hört sid mit dieser Meldung auf zu booten. /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/hda6/dev: No such file or directory Die Installation des neuen Kernels lief problemlos ab. Irgendwelche Ideen, wie ich das wieder hinbekomme? TIA juh -- Haeufig gestellte

Re: Problems booting after dist-upgrade

2005-12-14 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 14.12.05 17:49:54, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: Nach einem dist-upgrade mit neuem 2.6er Kernel hört sid mit dieser Meldung auf zu booten. /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/hda6/dev: No such file or directory Die Installation des neuen Kernels lief problemlos ab. Irgendwelche Ideen, wie ich

Re: Problems booting after dist-upgrade

2005-12-14 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Andreas Pakulat schrieb: On 14.12.05 17:49:54, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: Nach einem dist-upgrade mit neuem 2.6er Kernel hört sid mit dieser Meldung auf zu booten. /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/hda6/dev: No such file or directory Etwas mehr Infos waeren nicht schlecht, u.a. an welcher Stelle im

Re: Problems booting after dist-upgrade

2005-12-14 Thread Christoph Haas
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 17:49, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: Nach einem dist-upgrade mit neuem 2.6er Kernel hört sid mit dieser Meldung auf zu booten. /bin/cat: /sys/block/hda/hda6/dev: No such file or directory Die Installation des neuen Kernels lief problemlos ab. Irgendwelche Ideen,

Re: Problems booting kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7

2005-09-09 Thread Alessandro Di Rubbo
- Original Message - From: Paolo Pantaleo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problems booting kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 19:45:45 +0200 -- Forwarded message -- From: Paolo Pantaleo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 8-set-2005 19.45

Problems booting kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7

2005-09-08 Thread Alessandro Di Rubbo
If I boot the system using kernel 2.6, after the message about starting gdm (GNOME Display Manager), a messy image appears, similar to my desktop background: except for the mouse, everything is blocked. To go on I have to reset: mysteriously, after the reboot I can use kernel 2.6 (sometimes I

Problems booting kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7

2005-09-08 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
-- Forwarded message -- From: Paolo Pantaleo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 8-set-2005 19.45 Subject: Re: Problems booting kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 To: Alessandro Di Rubbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005/9/8, Alessandro Di Rubbo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If I boot the system using kernel 2.6, after

problems booting with grub

2003-12-24 Thread Grant Bierman
After re-installing debian via knoppix on my parents computer, and dist-updating. I installed grub again and at the time thought it was all configured right. But when it once re-started after the storm pass through the other night what was seen on the screen was error 15 after stage 1.5. *sigh*

Re: problems booting with grub

2003-12-24 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 01:04:17 -0600, Grant Bierman wrote: After re-installing debian via knoppix on my parents computer, and dist-updating. I installed grub again and at the time thought it was all configured right. But when it once re-started after the storm pass through the other night

Problems booting 2.4.22 - hangs at ifstate

2003-10-10 Thread Cam Ellison
Custom kernel 2.4.22 seems to boot fine up to the point where it deals with the usb hotplug script, where there are a couple of segfaults, but it gets past that, and then hangs at: Cleaning: /etc/network/ifstate /etc/network/interfaces is set up to auto lo, eth0, eth1. eth0 is static (lan) and

Rebuilt box, problems booting

2003-09-28 Thread Bradley Alexander
My sid workstation had a boot drive failure. I replaced the failed drive (a Maxtor 30GB) with a Maxtor 120GB. I kept the same partition layout (swap hda1; / hda2; lvm hda3). I then rebuilt the base system from the woody bf2.4disks and did an apt-get dselect-upgrade from the package list in

Re: Problems booting from hard drive.

2001-12-21 Thread Guy Geens
Alberto == Alberto Cabello Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alberto I just installed potato r3 on P75, 16 MB RAM and all worked Alberto fine. But booting from hard drive seems impossible to me. I suspect a hardware problem. Try running `badblocks /dev/hda' -- G. ``Iggy'' Geens - ICQ:

Re: Problems booting from hard drive.

2001-12-19 Thread Alberto Cabello Sanchez
Problem was solved yesterday with installation of GRUB as bootloader, so it remains only as something rare, but not critical. I will continue investigating a bit more. Lilo output is normal, I think: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# lilo Added Linux * [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# My lilo.conf reads (yes, it is a

Problems booting from hard drive.

2001-12-17 Thread Alberto Cabello Sanchez
I just installed potato r3 on P75, 16 MB RAM and all worked fine. But booting from hard drive seems impossible to me. I have lilo well config, and it boots well from floppy, but I always get an error among this ones when booting from hard drive: * crc error. * Out of memory. * Less than 4 MB

Re: Problems booting from hard drive.

2001-12-17 Thread Shaul Karl
I just installed potato r3 on P75, 16 MB RAM and all worked fine. But booting from hard drive seems impossible to me. I have lilo well config, and it boots well from floppy, but I always get an error among this ones when booting from hard drive: * crc error. * Out of memory. * Less

Re: Major problems booting Debian 2.2 - Nothing works

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Freedman
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001, Len Cheatham wrote: unreadable html Hi Len, I couldn't really follow your question, as I couldn't easily read your html-formatted email (for the future, you're certain to get more responses with text-only email, with line breaks at ~70 chars). But I'm going to give it a

Re: Major problems booting Debian 2.2 - Nothing works

2001-04-13 Thread Dean
- Original Message - From: Len Cheatham [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 10:29 PM Subject: Major problems booting Debian 2.2 - Nothing works I cannot get Debian 2.2 to boot up. I tried the following 2 methods, to no avail: ATTEMPT #1: After

Major problems booting Debian 2.2 - Nothing works

2001-04-12 Thread Len Cheatham
I cannot get Debian 2.2 to boot up. I tried the following 2 methods, to no avail: ATTEMPT #1: After downloading the CD from the Debian site, I burned a CD for Disk #1 and placed that in the CD drive. I booted the computer, and after going through all the install screens, Debian said that it

Problems booting NT with Lilo

2001-01-13 Thread Dale Miller
Hi there, I am having a stragne problem with lilo that I have not seen before and not sure how to solve it. I am running Debian unstable on anIBM Thinkpad 600X with a 12 G hard drive. Recently, about a week ago, lilo 1:21.6 went into the distribution. Since that point in time I have been unable

Re: Problems booting NT with Lilo

2001-01-13 Thread C. Falconer
At 10:20 AM 1/13/01 -0500, you wrote: Linux boots no problems as usual. NT does not. When I boot NT I get a Blue screen of death with the error message c135 and that winsrv.dll cannot find a DLL it needs. Upon furthur investigation I have determined that somehow the second NTFS partition is

Problems booting linux :(

1998-11-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, A friend of mine used to have working hamm system. He upgraded his processor memory, and then the sound and video card to a Videologic Apocalypse 5D Sonic Accelerator card (sound and video card) this has the PowerVR PCx2 3D processor ET6100 chip (2D) and ESS audio chipset The

Re: Problems booting with new kernel

1997-03-04 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Karl Sackett wrote: I've been trying to upgrade my kernel using kernel-source-2.0.27. I put the new kernel on a floppy, boot from the floppy, and instead of loading the new kernel I get this on my display: Loading.. 8000 AX: 02FF BX: CX: 000B DX:

Re: Problems booting with new kernel

1997-03-04 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Karl Sackett wrote: I've been trying to upgrade my kernel using kernel-source-2.0.27. I put the new kernel on a floppy, boot from the floppy, and instead of loading the new kernel I get this on my display: Loading..

Problems booting with new kernel

1997-02-25 Thread Karl Sackett
I've been trying to upgrade my kernel using kernel-source-2.0.27. I put the new kernel on a floppy, boot from the floppy, and instead of loading the new kernel I get this on my display: Loading.. 8000 AX: 02FF BX: CX: 000B DX: The hex code sequence keeps repeating until I reset my

Problems booting with new kernel...

1996-08-06 Thread Rob Nielsen
I've built a kernel with the sources from 2.0.6, but I'm having problems when I try to run it. I get the error: VFS: Cannot open root device 03:02 Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02 This is what I have in my .config file: # # Filesystems # #

Re: Problems booting with new kernel...

1996-08-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, VFS: Cannot open root device 03:02 your IDE driver is missing or can't find the disk. Is there any lines about IDE disks on the screen? Greetings Bernd

Re: Problems booting with new kernel...

1996-08-06 Thread Michael Karafotis
Actually it looks like your root device isn't set up properly .. are you using a boot disk .. if you are check out the rdev command it enables you to set your root partition. If it is not set correctly then you will get the following error. Michael Hi, VFS: Cannot open root device