On Monday 06 April 2009 15:13, Charles G Montgomery wrote:
A (lack of) progress report on my boot attempt failures. Feel free
to ignore.
...
The problem seems to come during the loading of modules.
You reported trying to boot other Linux distributions. Does it hang
up on the same
A (lack of) progress report on my boot attempt failures. Feel free
to ignore.
Memory and drive tests found no problems. The tech at Compucare was
reluctant to try replacing parts he didn't have on hand without a
better idea of what the problem was, which is reasonable. I
brought the
Is there any way to stop init partway through, so I could at
least see if unreasonable amounts of memory seem to have been
used, or look for other information?
I've occasionally had to engage in this sort of hackery when debugging
b0rken init logic and such. In the script of your choice,
From: Charles G Montgomery c...@physics.utoledo.edu
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 15:13:19 -0400
Booting single-user fails in the same way as a regular boot.
I can get a shell with init=/bin/sh.
I was hoping, from the shell, you would be able to run /usr/bin/free
or mount /proc and cat /proc/meminfo
Would you happen to be running and Windoze drivers, say via the NDIS
wrapper, on this system?
I have a notebook which I'm troubleshooting, and it locks up on boot
(hangs on the networking phase) and I think ndiswrappers might be used
because it's an Atheros chipset, so I'm wondering what info
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Charles G Montgomery
c...@physics.utoledo.edu wrote:
Booting single-user fails in the same way as a regular boot.
I can get a shell with init=/bin/sh. From the shell I can fsck
the file systems and mount and unmount. I can also run almost all
the scripts in
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
g...@freephile.com wrote:
I'm wondering what info you can
share on the (new?) gotchas with ndiswrappers.
Every time I've tried ndiswrappers, my impression has always been,
There are much easier ways to crash the system.
Sometimes
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile)
g...@freephile.com wrote:
Would you happen to be running and Windoze drivers, say via the NDIS
wrapper, on this system?
I have a notebook which I'm troubleshooting, and it locks up on boot
(hangs on the networking phase) and I think
