boot crash on 8.1
Hello; While my 8.1 installation is working well, it is having boot problems about half the time. It gets to the neighborhood of Mount SMB File System Starting SSH daemon Inporting Net File System (NFS) and then hangs, leaving the keyboard LEDs flashing. The hang does not always occur exactly in the same place, but always somewhere within these boot steps. The only solution is a hard reboot so fsck follows that. And /var/log/boot messages are started over so I cannot see exactly what happened. So can anyone say how I might fix this? Since I do not use either SMB File System or NFS, I might just be able to remove it from the boot script but I do not know which one to edit. Thanks in advance. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd rather be sailing"
On Thursday 06 November 2003 7:43 pm, Tony Alfrey wrote:
Hello;
While my 8.1 installation is working well, it is having boot problems about half the time. It gets to the neighborhood of
Mount SMB File System Starting SSH daemon Inporting Net File System (NFS)
and then hangs, leaving the keyboard LEDs flashing. The hang does not always occur exactly in the same place, but always somewhere within these boot steps. The only solution is a hard reboot so fsck follows that. And /var/log/boot messages are started over so I cannot see exactly what happened. So can anyone say how I might fix this? Since I do not use either SMB File System or NFS, I might just be able to remove it from the boot script but I do not know which one to edit. Thanks in advance.
-- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd rather be sailing"
Flashing keyboard LEDs means a kernel panic. More info needed to help troubleshoot. Anything on Ctrl+Alt+F10 screen? Maybe have to switch to that prior to the lockup phase. Could boot the Rescue System and check the log files. Have you been or are you using any boot load parameters such as apm=off and/or acpi=off and/or pci=noapic? Any hardware changes in the system? Any chance you have a heat problem now that wasn't there last week? Power supply going bad? Cooling fan dead or dying? Hard drive dying? Dust finally hard-packed onto everything internal? Cat/dog hair clogging cooling vents? If you've opened the system lately did you reseat/check all cable connectors, make sure all PCI cards are securely fastened and seated properly? Vibrations from a dying fan or hard drive could cause intermittent connection problems that may vary due to the heat of the systems and whether they've expanded to wiggle loose or hold together a bit better until the next boot. Of course it could be software related since you did load an OS on the machine... and use software when it does boot... Narrow it down for us a bit. Stan
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