Bug 113556 - booting a machine with external disk pack hangs
Summary: booting a machine with external disk pack hangs
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: grub
Version: 3.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-01-15 09:34 UTC by anand suvernkar
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-01-15 19:43:12 UTC
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Description anand suvernkar 2004-01-15 09:34:31 UTC
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Description of problem:

  I have a dell poweredge machine connected to external Dell disk pack.
I have set the timeout as 0 in the grub.conf. 
  But whenever I reboot the machine it asks for "press any key to
continute" ( even though I have set the timeout as  0 ). And if I dont
press any key, the system gets hung for around 10 minutes and then after
10 minutes it starts showing the next messages and then everything
goes fine. But I dont face this problem on other set of machines
which have similar setup ( both connected to external Dell disk pack)


  What can be the problem?
Thanks
Anand

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.4.21-4.ELsmp

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. reboot a machine with RHEL 3.0 installed  on it. (smp kernel)
2. dont press any key when it asks for, while booting the machine
3.
    

Actual Results:  machine gets hung

Expected Results:  normal  boot operation

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2004-01-15 19:43:12 UTC
timeout of zero is infinite, not no timeout.


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