From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.3 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.
I've had the same. I solved the problem by creating a new initrd image
would you be able to try ide=nodma as grub commandline option?
I tried passing ide=nodma as a kernel arguement. Same result. System completely locks up after mounting the root fs.
Problem still exists in 7.3.93.
Tried different boot options as suggested (apic, noapic, nohlt). Same result. System freezes on Init booting.
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.
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.
Problem still exists in 7.3.94(Null).
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))
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.
Duplicate of bug 74749
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