Re: 4.8-stable bsd.rd hangs on boot

2010-11-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/15/10 23:53, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > On 11/15/2010 06:35:38 PM, Nick Holland wrote: >> On 11/15/10 15:54, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > >> > I've an old HP Vectra, with 64MB RAM. When I try to upgrade >> > from 4.7 to 4.8 the bsd.rd hangs -- > >> > >> > Where should I go from here? >> >> try a snaps

Re: 4.8-stable bsd.rd hangs on boot

2010-11-15 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 11/15/2010 06:35:38 PM, Nick Holland wrote: > On 11/15/10 15:54, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > > I've an old HP Vectra, with 64MB RAM. When I try to upgrade > > from 4.7 to 4.8 the bsd.rd hangs -- > > > > Where should I go from here? > > try a snapshot, or do a "remote" upgrade (which doesn't use bsd

Re: 4.8-stable bsd.rd hangs on boot

2010-11-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/15/10 15:54, Karl O. Pinc wrote: > Hi, > > I've an old HP Vectra, with 64MB RAM. When I try to upgrade > from 4.7 to 4.8 the bsd.rd hangs -- the boot > sequence gets as far as "softraid0 at root" > and then stops. There is no response to > ctrl-alt-del and the system must be power > cycled

4.8-stable bsd.rd hangs on boot

2010-11-15 Thread Karl O. Pinc
Hi, I've an old HP Vectra, with 64MB RAM. When I try to upgrade from 4.7 to 4.8 the bsd.rd hangs -- the boot sequence gets as far as "softraid0 at root" and then stops. There is no response to ctrl-alt-del and the system must be power cycled. Appended is the output from a serial console booting