Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 85842
Seemingly non-problematic install - Crashes on INIT: after reboot
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:51:55 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Description of problem: My system specs: (Gateway)Jabil AMD K7 Motherboard AMD Athlon 750Mhz 512MB PC133 SDRAM WD Caviar 20GB 7200RPM Nvidia GeForce2 MX400 Realtek Chipset-based Ethernet Card Grub as MBR bootloader on /dev/hda All my hardware except the monitor is recognized, I configure that using a newer version of the driver which you can choose during the installation. I configure my network, and package settings ans everything seems to work fine. The install completes, I make boot disk, and set up the X configuration to use 800x600 24bit (Test works fine). When I reboot and start the OS, it hangs hard at INIT:. No keyboard functionality, nothing works, system has to be reset. Please help! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install 2.Reboot Actual Results: Crash on INIT: runlevel Expected Results: Should boot normally Additional info:
Build is Psyche-i386
Also, I have succesfully run RH7.0 on this system with the updated XFree86 modules. Why does a newer version of the OS break things? Bad! :(
I think you can close this thread I've have solved the problem, and I can only come to two possible solutions. I had DRAM ECC enabled in the bios, which is not supported by my DRAM Modules. However, this BIOS configuration is incorrect and did stop the Pheobe2 build from booting past INIT:. I disabled this option in BIOS and booted the Pheobe2 build working properly. I then proceeded to reformat and install the Phsyche 8.0 release. Once another (seemingly) non-problematic installtion completed, I reboot. Now, with the BIOS options changed and everything was in working order, I had the same problem described in this bugtrack post, Hangs on INIT:, needs hard reboot. So, after 2 days of this, I finally tried re-installing pheobe2 and it works fine now. So, it's either my Physche CD media (which tested: PASS), or it's something wrong with Psyche and the anaconda installer. I presume something is wrong with GRUB, but not sure. I don't develop Linux :P I hope this can help someone else out.