Re: [tlug] Hangup on etch boot

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

Charles Muller wrote:

> 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, 

It did hang again, so I'll put together some of these log messages and 
post them.

Chuck

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