Re: [tlug] Hangup on etch boot

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

stephen@example.com wrote:

> I think what we need to see is the contents of dmesg, once for booting
> w/o then hotplugging the drive (have you done that? does it work?),
> and once with the drive plugged in at boot (there should be remnants
> up to the hang, probably in /var/log/kern.log or /var/log/syslog).

I spent a good part of the evening digging around the forums, and found 
a guy with the same kernel (except he is running Fedora) who reported an 
 apparently identical problem, and said that he found out that it seems 
to be happening to people who have their USB drive plugged in during 
installation. He said that after a reinstall keeping the drive 
unplugged, the problem went away.

I tried it, and have been able to boot normally five times in a row up 
to now, so maybe that's it. If the problem re-occurs, I'll generate a 
dmesg and post it to the list.

The responses are much appreciated.

Chuck


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