Bug 68533

Summary:	System Hangs On Boot
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Nick Uniatowski <nicku>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	alan, andrew, wtogami
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Hardware:	athlon
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2004-09-30 15:39:44 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	74749

Description Nick Uniatowski 2002-07-10 23:41:30 UTC

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Description of problem:
The installer went smoothly. I chose a custom install, selected everything but
games, dns, and windows server. Upon rebooting the system froze on loading Init
after freeing unused kernel memory and mounting the root fs. I dont think the
filesystem is mounting, however no errors are listed. I booted in rescue mode
and the root fs mounted fine, so its not the partitions.

The system config is:

Processor: 1ghz Athlon
Motherboard: Jabil AMD Motherboard R4 (AMD 750, consisting of the AMD 751
Irongate North bridge and the AMD 756 Viper South bridge)
Memory: 512mb
Controller: Promise Ultra100 PCI
NIC: 3com 10/100 PCI
Sound: SB Live Value
Video: Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS
Mouse: MS Intellimouse
Keyboard: PS/2 Keyboard.

The system has 2 HDs.
Drive 1: is WinXP (hde)
Drive 2: has 2 partions.  / (hdf1)  swap (hdf2)

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start machine
2.
3.

Comment 1 Roel Gloudemans 2002-07-24 08:24:15 UTC

I've had the same. I solved the problem by creating a new initrd image

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2002-07-26 12:45:03 UTC

would  you be able to try ide=nodma as grub commandline option?

Comment 3 Nick Uniatowski 2002-07-26 14:21:41 UTC

I tried passing ide=nodma as a kernel arguement. Same result. System completely
locks up after mounting the root fs.

Comment 4 Nick Uniatowski 2002-07-31 14:34:53 UTC

Problem still exists in 7.3.93.

Comment 5 Nick Uniatowski 2002-08-06 22:55:48 UTC

Tried different boot options as suggested (apic, noapic, nohlt). Same result.
System freezes on Init booting.

Comment 6 Warren Togami 2002-08-13 11:28:28 UTC

I have seen this exact problem on a Red Hat 7.3 (Pentium III) and Limbo2
(Athlon) machine today.  Ended up booting into rescue and re-installing the
kernel, then things were back to normal.  I have no clue how it became this way.

Comment 7 Nick Uniatowski 2002-08-15 13:17:58 UTC

I tried to boot into rescue mode and re-install the athlon kernel using rpm -
ivh kernel-whatever --replacefiles --replacepkgs.  The system still hangs on 
boot. After installing the kernel rpm, depmod returned this msg:

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-
7.80/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/longhaul.o

depmod: cpufreq_unregister_Rcf4ba771
depmod: cpufreq_register_Ra6b98f00

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-
7.80/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/p4-clockmod.o

depmod: cpufreq_unregister_Rcf4ba771
depmod: cpufreq_register_Ra6b98f00

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18-
7.80/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/speedstep.o

depmod: cpufreq_unregister_Rcf4ba771
depmod: cpufreq_register_Ra6b98f00

hope this helps.

Comment 8 Nick Uniatowski 2002-08-20 16:12:10 UTC

Problem still exists in 7.3.94(Null).

Comment 9 Alan Cox 2002-08-21 19:41:56 UTC

I'll take a look at this one and double check it. I've got a 751/756 providing
it'll boot the Null CD. (I blew the floppy controller up 8))

Comment 10 Nick Uniatowski 2002-08-28 17:43:18 UTC

I found a site with a lot of info about the board and links to additional
information:

http://bratlady.com/Jabil_Motherboard.shtml

also, mine has the bios upgrade installed and I am using a athlon 1ghz tbird.

Comment 11 Andrew Sobala 2003-04-07 18:24:12 UTC

Duplicate of bug 74749

Comment 12 Bugzilla owner 2004-09-30 15:39:44 UTC

Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of
the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem
persists.

The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, 
and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in
the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/