Bug 23064

Summary:	RH7 Will not boot on a Gateway 7200 Hangs after "Enabling swap space"
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Jonathon Evans <jthon>
Component:	kudzu	Assignee:	Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0
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Description Jonathon Evans 2000-12-31 23:57:12 UTC

I have a Gateway 7200 serer that I wan to install RH7 on.  The Redhat 7 
install finishes with no problem, but when the systems reboots I have a 
problem.  The systems hangs right after you see "Enabling swap space   
[OK]"  After that all there is on the next line is a blinking cursor.  A 
more curious thing is that I can install RH6.0 then upgrade to 7.  It will 
sucsessfully boot once and detect my second NIC and a USB controller then 
if I immeadiately reboot and make NO changes it will show the hanging 
behavior as if I had just install RH7.

Solutions I have tried:  Starting with "linux nousb".  Same behavior.

System Specs:
1 Pentium 2 450mhz  Supports 2 but only one installed.
256MB of ram
Adaptec 2890 SCSI adapter.
2 8GB seagate SCSI Harddrives
1 SCSI DAT drive
Built in Intel Etherexpress pro
3com 509c PCI

Comment 1 Jonathon Evans 2001-01-01 23:02:53 UTC

This isn't really a kernel bug I found that its related to Kudzu.  After 
checking my /var/log/boot.log I found that my system boots kudzu after swap 
file.  BTW my boot.log will not update unless I sucsessfully boot.  Well I 
decided to delete the /etc/sysconfig/hwconf file.  I found that my system will 
now boot.  Any idea why deleting this files allows kudzu to work?  I have an 
option to tuen on PNP os in my bios I disabled PNP since I know linux wasn't 
PNP compatible.  If I enable PNP in bios would that allow Kudzu to detect my 
hardware correctly?  If not is there a way to remove kudzu?

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-01-02 06:13:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18793 ***