Re: 4.8-stable bsd.rd hangs on boot

2010-11-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/15/10 23:53, Karl O. Pinc wrote: On 11/15/2010 06:35:38 PM, Nick Holland wrote: On 11/15/10 15:54, Karl O. Pinc wrote: I've an old HP Vectra, with 64MB RAM. When I try to upgrade from 4.7 to 4.8 the bsd.rd hangs -- Where should I go from here? try a snapshot, or do a remote

Re: 4.8-stable bsd.rd hangs on boot

2010-11-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/15/10 15:54, Karl O. Pinc wrote: Hi, I've an old HP Vectra, with 64MB RAM. When I try to upgrade from 4.7 to 4.8 the bsd.rd hangs -- the boot sequence gets as far as softraid0 at root and then stops. There is no response to ctrl-alt-del and the system must be power cycled.

Re: 4.8-stable bsd.rd hangs on boot

2010-11-15 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 11/15/2010 06:35:38 PM, Nick Holland wrote: On 11/15/10 15:54, Karl O. Pinc wrote: I've an old HP Vectra, with 64MB RAM. When I try to upgrade from 4.7 to 4.8 the bsd.rd hangs -- Where should I go from here? try a snapshot, or do a remote upgrade (which doesn't use bsd.rd). As I