Re: [SLE] boot lock problem

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 08:16 am, Jerry Feldman wrote: [...]

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I would be very glad for any hints what to do. I tried, without any results, to change the DRAM clock from 133 to 100, and I am currently running a ram test.

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I have found that similar problems are generally not caused by software. If you have not made any recent hardware changes, I would suggest that you are having an intermittent component failure, most probably power supply. I had some intermittent system failures, where the hard drives would just apparently appear to go offline. Drove me nuts until I replaced the power supply. I also had similar boot lockups while rebooting. The biggest clue that this is a hardware problem is that your rescue system locks up.

Fortunately, power supplies are relatively inexpensive, easy to replace, and do not require any software or firmware changes.

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-- Jerry Feldman ===============

Alexander, I would tend to agree with Jerry here from what you have described is happening with your system. This sounds much more like a hardware problem than a software problem. You might try removing certain things from the system first to see if one component is causing the locks and if that fails replace the power supply. The systems today are quite a bit more sensitive to voltage changes and the power supplies are somewhat more intelligent as well. Any suspected problems with other hardware or components, may cause the power suppy to even shutdown. Start by unhooking things and go deeper after that, if the problem persists. Regards, Pat -- --- KMail v1.5.3-2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...