Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 162800
Crash at boot time
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:20:51 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: The system crash early in the boot process. Computer Compaq Deskpro P600 with Intel PIIX4 ACPI Video card ATI Mach64 Memory 384 MB Grub entries of the last 2 kernels that crass at boot time. Too early to know where. The /var/log/messages files do not contain any record of the boots that crashed. title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1390_FC4) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4.img title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1387_FC4) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4.img Last version that works. Linux version 2.6.11-1.1381_FC5 (bhcompile@tweety.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.0.0 20050606 (Red Hat 4.0.0-11)) #1 Thu Jun 9 20:56:43 EDT 2005 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernels 2.6.12-1.1390_FC4 2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try to boot 2. 3. Actual Results: Crashes. The computer is compleatly crashed. No activity of any kind Additional info:
can you remove the 'quiet' from the boot command line, and see what the last lines of text are ?
I removed the 'quiet' and the crash occurs after 'Set Host Name'. The next operation, with feedback to the screen, in normal boot condition is 'Set Logical Volume'.
[This comment has been added as a mass update for all FC4 kernel bugs. If you have migrated this bug from an FC3 bug today, ignore this comment.] Please retest your problem with todays 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 update. If your problem involved being unable to boot, or some hardware not being detected correctly, please make sure your /etc/modprobe.conf is correct *BEFORE* installing any kernel updates. If in doubt, you can recreate this file using.. mv /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.bak mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf.bak kudzu Thank you.
It's possible you were hit by a recent mkinitrd bug. Do these steps.. rpm -e kernel-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 (only do this step if you have this installed) yum update mkinitrd yum update kernel This should now work. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163407 ***