Re: Strange boot-time hang (long, sorry)
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 10:14:23AM -0500, Andrew Reid wrote:
> The system is a file server, it's a dual-core Opteron machine,
> 4G RAM, root FS on a software RAID1 array and the served files
> on a 3ware RAID5 system with a capacity of about 2.6 TB. The
> important services are ssh, nfsd, and nfs, but it's also a
> CUPS server.
>
> Several days ago, this machine crashed, probably due to a disk
> failure in the RAID1 root-fs array, and subsequent to the disk
> replacement, was not able to reboot fully into run-level 2, instead
> always hanging somewhere in the /etc/rc2.d/S20* part of the start-up
> sequence.
Why did the machine crash due to a disk failure if its on a raid1
root-fs array? If swap is also on raid there should be no failure
unless its hardware other than the single disk.
The other reply you've received, about /dev/console, can be checked by
booting up with init=/bin/sh so that udev isn't started and see what you
get.
Doug.
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