Hi. I also read yesterday that the NIC eepro100 could cause hanging on boot.
--- Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 17:39, Javier Gostling wrote: > ... > > which is expected. Now, when I rebooted to apply > the kernel upgrade, the > > system hung on startup with the new kernel. After > some investigation, I > > found that the linuxrc script in the initrd image > for 2.4.9-34smp was > > getting an error when mounting the root > filesystem, hence pivot_root > > failed and init could not run (hang). The specific > message is: > > > > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 > ... > > Btw, the machine is a Compaq ProLiant DL380, dual > P-III 733 MHz, 512 Mb. > > Ram. The disk system is comprised of a Compaq > SmartArray 431 RAID > > controller, with two 9 Gb hot plug SCSI hard > drives in RAID 1 (HW RAID). > > There is also an on-borad NIC (3-com) and 3 add-on > NICs (intel > > eepro100). > > > It's a kernel bug. Change your grub.conf to use: > root=3003 > where 3003 is the hex value of the root device's > major and minor number. > > In our case, the root device is on /dev/rd/c0d0p3, > it's major and minor > numbers are 48 and 3: > # ls -l /dev/rd/c0d0p3 > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 48, 3 Apr 11 > 07:25 /dev/rd/c0d0p3 > > Decimal 48 is hex 30; decimal 3 is hex 3, so "3003" > is the root device. > Adjust values to suit your own install. > > Early kernels in 7.3 also had this problem, but the > latest errata > included a fix (a missing patch, apparently). > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ______________________________________________________ Se den nye Yahoo! Mail på http://no.yahoo.com/ Nytt design, enklere å bruke, alltid tilgang til Adressebok, Kalender og Notisbok -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
