Give this one a try. Add the boot parameter "barrier=off" at the grub command line. Some SATA disks need it. It solved a booting problem for me a few months ago. Roel Vestjens On Sunday 05 December 2004 15:59, Carl A. Schreiber wrote:
As several others (german suse linux list) had problems with different usd devices (mouse, extrenal hd) I assumethat you better do not plug anything into usb. I hardly convinced that this is the problem - as far as the dummy user is always guilty..
Carl
Am Samstag, 4. Dezember 2004 14:34 schrieb Stefan Proels:
Dear list,
I've installed the latest kernel patches (announced last Wednesday) today on several machines and one of them fails to boot now. We probably won't have physical access to this machine until Monday so I currently have no idea what happened or where the boot process stops.
The machine in questions is running SuSE 9.0. Another SuSE 9.0 machine, one SuSE 9.1 and three SuSE 9.2 machines did not show this problem and booted up fine after the update.
The working 9.0 machine is basically identically configured as the failing one but has different hardware. The working machine has a single P4 CPU, 1 GB RAM and a single 160 GB parallel ATA disk. The failing machine has 2 Xeons, 4 GB RAM and 4 S-ATA disks, 160 GB each, in a RAID 0+1 attached to a 3ware Escalade RAID Controller. Both machines are running reiserfs and a SMP kernel.
In case anybody else has experienced this problem any information about it would be appreciated so that we can get up the machine again as quickly as possible on Monday.
Best regards, Stefan