Silent boot hang with new kernel
Hi,
I installed new binary kernel using package
kernel-image-2.6.0-1-686*.deb. I'm running Debian unstable. When I
select the new kernel in lilo menu it shows this message:
Loading Linux.........................
BIOS data check successful
The message then disappears and I have nice clean black screen - no
messages!. The only way to get out of it is to press the reset button.
The other two kernels I have still work normal - after the disappearing
of abovementioned message continues normal boot-up process with messages
listing.
During the installation of the kernel a message appeared, that it needs
initrd configured in lilo, so I edited lilo.conf and added the line
initrd=/initrd.img
It is link to 4MB uncompressed /boot/initrd-<kernelversion>.img
(untouched - as it came with the kernel package) - so I tried also to
put direct path to this file and also tried comment out the initrd line.
No difference.
So maybe I still have some stupid bug in lilo.conf, or it may be
something other - maybe: the /boot dir with all the kernels and initrd
image is part of the 5 GB root partition -so may it be that some file is
physically stored beyond some size border where it is unaccessible
during the boot process?
Thanks for any hints.
Tomas IV.
My lilo.conf (minus most comments):
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lba32
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda1
bitmap=/usr/share/lilo/contrib/sid.bmp
bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0
bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17
bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0
install=/boot/boot-bmp.b
#install=/boot/boot-menu.b
map=/boot/map
delay=20
# message=/boot/bootmess.txt
prompt
timeout=150
#vga=791
vga=normal
append="hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi apm=power-off nomce"
default=Linux-suse
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux-2.6
initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.0-1-686
# read-only
# optional
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-xfs
label=Linux
read-only
# restricted
# alias=1
image=/boot/suselinuz
label=Linux-suse
read-only
append="hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi apm=power-off nomce"
optional
# restricted
# alias=2
# If you have another OS on this machine to boot...
#
# other=/dev/hda4
# label=HURD
# restricted
# alias=3
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Tomas Brunclik
Web: http://tom4.hyperlink.cz, Phone (work): (+420) 466 036 196
Jabber: Tomas_IV@jabber.cz, ICQ: 56729264
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