From: Jeff Golds <jgolds@resilience.com>
To: "David N. Lombard" <david.lombard@mscsoftware.com>
Cc: Patric Mrawek <mrawek@punkt.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Boot Problem
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:25:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B0C2AB0.F374FC68@resilience.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010523140356.A38056@punkt.de> <3B0C21C6.A78FEDB6@mscsoftware.com>
"David N. Lombard" wrote:
>
> Patric Mrawek wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > sometimes one of my servers doesn't boot correctly. Lilo reads the
> > kernel-image, but doesn't decompress it. So the system won't
> > continue booting.
> >
> > Looks like:
> > Loading linux...................
> > (at this point the machine freezes)
>
> Our experience of this has been with suspect hardware. It was our first
> (pre-release) P4 system, so we puzzled over it for a short while; later
> testing on other P4 systems showed no such problem.
>
This could also be from disabling "VGA text console" support in the
kernel. The last message you will see on the VGA console is the
"Loading linux......." if you've disabled this feature.
However, if the problem is intermittent, this probably isn't the issue.
-Jeff
--
Jeff Golds
jgolds@resilience.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-23 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-23 12:03 Boot Problem Patric Mrawek
2001-05-23 20:47 ` David N. Lombard
2001-05-23 21:25 ` Jeff Golds [this message]
2001-05-24 2:19 ` Brent D. Norris
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-05-23 12:54 Boot problem Michel Macena
2010-07-09 15:06 boot problem Lubos Kolouch
2010-07-09 15:10 ` Daniel Kozlowski
2009-12-04 19:28 Boot problem malc
2008-08-10 17:25 mengualjeanphi
2005-05-02 12:07 boot problem Andrew
2005-05-02 13:41 ` chuck gelm
2005-05-02 15:16 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-05-02 15:26 ` Andrew
2005-05-02 16:08 ` Ray Olszewski
2005-05-02 16:10 ` Andrew
[not found] ` <4b0d6e0d05050206107fae523@mail.gmail.com>
2005-05-02 15:21 ` Andrew
2004-04-27 23:17 Carlos Alberto Pereira Gomes
2004-04-28 0:08 ` Ian Pratt
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0201250656230.1598-100000@Consulate.UFP.CX>
2002-04-10 22:33 ` Dan Olson
1998-01-14 23:50 William Ellis
1998-01-14 23:55 ` Ariel Faigon
1998-01-14 23:55 ` Ariel Faigon
1998-01-14 23:58 ` Shrijeet Mukherjee
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Charles Marker
1998-01-15 0:00 ` Charles Marker
1998-01-15 0:11 ` Eric Kimminau
1998-01-15 0:26 ` ralf
1998-01-15 0:56 ` William J. Earl
1998-01-15 5:15 ` ralf
1998-01-15 6:10 ` William J. Earl
1998-01-15 0:34 ` Alan Cox
1998-01-15 0:34 ` Alan Cox
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