Bug#431741: booting hangs
Op 04-07-2007 om 19:11 schreef DL:
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> The grub works apparently fine, the windows boots
> perfectly but Debian hangs after a while at about finishing the boot.
That does remind me about a usplash bug I recently filed.
Check http://bugs.debian.org/429621 for details
(and please provide feedback)
> I suspect that the video card has to do with it,
> as it some times - without apparent reason -
> hangs also inside the windows.
Ai, failing hardware, that can't be solved in software ...
> Is there a method to debug the booting step by step?
(Warning: This answer can get you on the wrong track.)
I'm not sure about what you want to debug,
but I feel the need to tell about "bootlogd".
It will get you messages like
Sat Jul 7 22:13:01 2007: Loading device-mapper support.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:02 2007: Checking file systems...fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
Sat Jul 7 22:13:02 2007: done.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:02 2007: Setting kernel variables...done.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:02 2007: Mounting local filesystems...done.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:02 2007: Activating swapfile swap...done.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:02 2007: Setting up networking....
Sat Jul 7 22:13:03 2007: Configuring network interfaces...done.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:03 2007: Starting portmap daemon....
Sat Jul 7 22:13:04 2007: Setting console screen modes and fonts.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:04 2007: INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Sat Jul 7 22:13:06 2007: Starting system log daemon: syslogd.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:07 2007: Starting kernel log daemon: klogd.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:07 2007: Starting portmap daemon...Already running..
Sat Jul 7 22:13:07 2007: Starting MTA: exim4.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:38 2007: Starting internet superserver: inetd.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:38 2007: Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshd.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:39 2007: Starting NFS common utilities: statd.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:39 2007: Starting deferred execution scheduler: atd.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:39 2007: Starting periodic command scheduler: crond.
Sat Jul 7 22:13:39 2007: Starting web server (apache2)....
in /var/log/boot
I doubt that it will capture your video problem.
Cheers
Geert Stappers
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