Bug 61310

Summary:	boot stops at the point right after loading swap
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	purgatory
Component:	svgalib	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	rvokal
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2002-03-21 04:05:13 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description purgatory 2002-03-17 04:34:35 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
redhat boots up to the point of enabling swap space and stops after that point 
with no keyboard response only way to reboot the system is to hard power off 
and then back on

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.reboot
2.
3.
	

Additional info:

if i use a boot floppy the system boots as normal but using lilo it does nothing

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-03-21 04:05:09 UTC

Try the following:

Boot with 'init=/bin/bash', then do:

mount -n /proc
mount -o rw,remount /
mount /var  (if you have a separate /var)
rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db*
umount /var (again, if it's separate)
mount -o ro,remount /
umount /proc
/sbin/reboot -f

Does that help?

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-11-25 22:00:12 UTC

closed, no response