Hi, I had the same problem with my server! It took me nearly 3 hours to figure out what was wrong and to roll back to the standard kernel from CD. I found out, that the kernel hangs as soon as the harddrive is mounted with write support! I don't know why.. it makes no sens. I too have an other System where it works perfectly. So SuSE Team! Fix this Bug! Its really anoying!!!!! I wont install the next kernelpatch until its tested and veryfied! I've better things to waste my time on! MFG Daniel Am Donnerstag, 17. Juni 2004 21:43 schrieb Arjen de Korte:
I experienced an unpleasant side affect with the latest kernel update for SuSE 9.1. One (older Pentium-S system) hangs early in the boot process after installing this update. Rolling back to the version supplied on the installation disks fixed this. The strange thing is, this didn't happen on any of the newer systems update before or afterwards, just this one.
I can't find a reason why, but on a second try it resulted in the same behavior. Locked solid, even after waiting for over an hour. Keyboard dead, only responded to the power button. The last lines in the boot log read
Setting up network interfaces: lo
Any suggestions on how to find out what goes wrong here? Since I only have trusted local users, I'm not so worried about the implications of not having the latest kernel, but sure I would like to know what happened. I'm using the default kernel on this system.
Regards, Arjen