Re: Warm LOADLIN boot hangs after syslogd
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Dan Halbert wrote:
> I have a new dual-boot Win98SE and an up-to-date slink system with
> 2.0.36, running on an Abit LX6. Win98 and Linux share a single disk.
>
> If I use LOADLIN, invoked from Win98, to boot the system, then Linux
> usually (always?) hangs while booting after starting syslogd but
> before klogd:
>
> ...
> Starting system loggers: syslogd [hangs and does not print "klogd"]
>
> Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing, but the disk is accessed every few seconds,
> so something (sync process?) is working. There's nothing in the logs on
> a subsequent successful boot.
>
> If I run the same LOADLIN script after freshly booting into raw MS-DOS,
> this hang does not happen. There are no arguments to LOADLIN other than
> the vmlinuz file. This technique used to work just fine on a previous
> incarnation of the system on a 486.
>
> The only guess I have is that it might be some kind of PnP problem. But
> there's no sign of trouble in the boot messages up to that point.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Dan Halbert
>
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