Re: Bootup Freezes
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:27:53PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 at 19:11 GMT, Thomas H. George penned:
> >>
> >> You might try booting a few times from a Knoppix CD, just to
> >> eliminate hardware problems.
> >>
> >> I started having similar problems a few weeks ago. I finally tried
> >> Knoppix, and found it froze the box also, and after some more
> >> diagnosis (including swapping out the processor) came to the
> >> conclusion that my mobo had turned south on me. But for quite a while
> >> I thought it was software-related; it "felt" software-related.
> >>
> >> -- Kent
> >>
> > Interesting. Looking back in my log book I find I installed a new
> > motherboard and cpu (Albatron KX400-8XV and Athlon XP2000) on Nov. 7th
> > and kernel-source-0.6.0-test9 on Nov. 9th. Installed
> > module-init-install on Nov. 11th as this was needed to load the ehci
> > module. The first note of a boot up problem was on Nov. 12th.
> >
> > Could there be a motherboard problem? I have used Albatron KX400
> > series motherboards in other computers with no problems but,
> > interestingly, I recall seeing a message regarding an unknown
> > southbridge when booting up from the bbc-2.1 cd.
> >
> > Tom
>
> It could be. I would go ahead and try the above suggestion of running
> Knoppix on it for a few days. If that stays stable, then it's probably
> the kernel. There's a reason that the 2.6 line of kernels is still
> called "test". If you want solid performance, you should stick to 2.4.
>
> (You meant 2.6, not 0.6, right?)
>
> --
> monique
>
OK, I downloaded Knoppis and will try it for a few days. And yes, I did
mean 2.6, not 0.6. I understood the implication of "test" and had
already reverted to 2.4.22 and the problems continued. In fact, last
night the shutdown seemed completely normal but this morning bootup
halted with a "general protection fault"! Again, booting from bbc-2.1
and running e2fsck -f on all partitions found nothing following which
the system booted to 2.4.22 with no problems.
tom
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