Bug 18793
Summary: | RH 7.0 hangs on boot after the text 'Enabling swap space' | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Matthew Seddon <mseddon> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm> |
Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | high | ||
Version: | 7.0 | CC: | bc499, gtsubs, marc.luuk, mdhouse |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-06-25 06:26:56 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Matthew Seddon
2000-10-10 10:42:54 UTC
Hi! I've got just the same problem. I've got a laptop (HP Omnibook XE-2 DD) with an onboard AGP card (Silicon Motion LynxEM 4MB). I'll try your workaround and report the result to you. Thanks! Hi again! I' ve just reinstalled RH 7.0 on my machine. Your workaround works fine. But you should know that a RH Rescue floppy disk or CD isn't able to boot the system. It hangs at the same point ("enabling swap space"). The boot under aid of a well known rescue disk (tomsrtbt) worked fine. So I was able to mount the root-file-sytem and to edit the rc.sysinit. Thanks! Quoted from Denis Hruza on the Support Forum: -- BEGIN QUOTE Don't know if it will work with the SCSI setups, but you can also try At the graphical lilo screen hit ctrl-x At the lilo boot prompt type: linux init=/bin/bash rw It will load the kernel and pop up a bash shell without running any of the init stuff. You can then go edit what you need to. -- END QUOTE I honestly haven't tried this. Thanks for your tip. I'll try it. Same problem and same resolution on an HP Omnibook 4150 with a NeoMagic 128 2MB AGP card. OK, it appears the agpgart module hangs some systems. Any ideas from the kernel folks? *** Bug 19228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 18761 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 20356 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 21489 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I can't get my E60 (SCSI) past the swap line no matter what I do. Even reformatting the drive and doing a clean install didn't work. I was able to get into bash and edit rc.sysinit in pico, which is easier than the rescue CD route, but it still didn't help. My next step, I suppose, is to replace the AGP video card with a PCI type and reinstall 7.0. *** Bug 22779 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 23064 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I found if I delete /etc/sysinfo/hwconf everytime I can then boot my machine. I think its related to Kudzu. They marked my bug report as a duplicate. Because it *is* a duplicate. It's only related to kudzu because that's where it looks for the configuration information to load the agpgart module. It's the agpgart module that's hanging your system. The hang on boot problem also occurs on my Gateway 8200 Servers. The published fix (edit agp line from rc.sysinit) corrects the problem. The hang on boot problem also occurs on my Gateway 8200 Servers. The published fix (edit agp line from rc.sysinit) corrects the problem. The bug also occurs on the Toshiba Satellite Pro 4270ZDVD laptop computer. I have been having exactly this problem after installing RedHat Linux 7.0. commenting out those lines of code does not seem to work on my Toshiba SatellitePro 4270ZDVD laptop. It still hangs either just after Enabling swap space or just before it (after a message about turning on quotas or something) HP NETSERVER 60 W/32MB AGP ATI VIDEO.HAVING SAME PROBLEM. I HAVE NO LINUX EXPERIENCE AND TRIED THE LINUX SINGLE INIT COMMAND. MACHINE BOOTS TO INIT- 2.04#. ANYONE GOT THE TIME TO SEND ME DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO EDIT THESE LINES 583- 585? I AM STARING AT INIT-2.04# _ AND NEED HELP PLEASE. THANK YOU!! FWIW, the current initscripts do *not* automatically load agpgart. Same problem happened with me with redhat 7.1. I have a pentium 166 MMX. PCI video card here though! If I boot from the floppy it works fine, but not othewise! I tried re-installing with several different configurations (size of swap or even different hard-drives!) I'll try this fix, hopefully it'll work! Latest release 7.1 works fine. I'm unable to boot the system using and edit the files (either rc.sysinit or inittab) either way the file system is mounted in read- only mode, any suggestions? -MDH mdhouse |