Bug 61310 - boot stops at the point right after loading swap
Summary: boot stops at the point right after loading swap
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: svgalib
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-03-17 04:34 UTC by purgatory
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:26 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-03-21 04:05:13 UTC
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Description purgatory 2002-03-17 04:34:35 UTC 
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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
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