Bug#432971: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686: Hangs at boot before "Begin: Waiting for root filesystem" message
Package: linux-image-2.6.21-2-686
Version: 2.6.21-5
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
On boot if kernel 2.6.21-2 is selected either for 486 or 686
architecture than system hangs on
"Begin: Waiting for root filesystem"
I believe this is right after kernel has inited. Is this correct?
Kernel - 2.6.18 boots normally.
Please suggest some tests so I can bring more specific info to this bug
report.
On boot BIOS says system is an intel
Celeron 1700.
RAM is 753664 bytes + 32768 shared
2 ide hard drives, 1 creative cdr drive
1 AGP video, 1 PCI video
Thank you.
Miguel
Some system related info:
Linux version 2.6.18-4-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12) (waldi@debian.org)
(gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Mon
Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007
mfeitosa@tatarana:/proc$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
1
/dev/hdd1 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
mfeitosa@tatarana:/proc$ cat meminfo
MemTotal: 744104 kB
MemFree: 475840 kB
Buffers: 12908 kB
Cached: 138108 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 175276 kB
Inactive: 73692 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 744104 kB
LowFree: 475840 kB
SwapTotal: 1477972 kB
SwapFree: 1477972 kB
Dirty: 96 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 97956 kB
Mapped: 42280 kB
Slab: 11780 kB
PageTables: 1692 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 1850024 kB
Committed_AS: 306048 kB
VmallocTotal: 278520 kB
VmallocUsed: 3472 kB
VmallocChunk: 275016 kB
mfeitosa@tatarana:~$ cat /proc/ide/drivers
ide-disk version 1.18
ide-cdrom version 4.61
mfeitosa@tatarana:/proc$ cat cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 1
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 1.70GHz
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 1715.319
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm up
bogomips : 3433.92
mfeitosa@tatarana:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 650/M650 Host (rev
01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] Virtual PCI-to-PCI
bridge (AGP)
00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961 [MuTIOL
Media IO] (rev 10)
00:02.1 SMBus: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS961/2 SMBus
Controller
00:02.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0
Controller (rev 07)
00:02.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0
Controller (rev 07)
00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] (rev
d0)
00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
AC'97 Sound Controller (rev a0)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 PCI
Fast Ethernet (rev 90)
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Davicom Semiconductor, Inc. 21x4x DEC-Tulip
compatible 10/100 Ethernet (rev 31)
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 MX
420] (rev a3)
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]
65x/M650/740 PCI/AGP VGA Display Adapter
-- Package-specific info:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (650, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 depends on:
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initr 0.88 tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre11-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.5-9+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
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