On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:16:07AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 12:09:19AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Sven Luther] > > > Then why is it not booting ? > > > > > > The kernel boots, loads the cdrom.initrd image, mounts it as root, > > > mounts the devfs filesystem, and hangs. > > > > Perhaps you see the glibc/mklibs/whatever bug making all programs > > crash? What is the exact messages on the screen before it hangs? > > Last 4-5 lines would be good. Compare it with #206531. > > Ok, here it goes (more or less, typed by hand with the other monitor at > my side) : > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 2028k freed > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > Mounted devfs on /dev > Freeing unused kernel memory: 320k init 40k pmac 8k prep > > And a blinking cursor below that, keyboard works, but nothing else > happens. > > > > what is supposed to come next ? And how can i check that it > > > works. Mmm, maybe i will go looking into the /linuxrc, which i think > > > is where this code is. Is it ok to put some echo or things like that > > > in there ? > > > > Yes, it should be ok to put echos in the linuxrc. I believe it is in > > rootskel. > > Ok, i will try this one.
A couple of boot arguments to try, may do something, and won't hurt: debug verbose -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
