On 16/09/05, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:43 +0100, Will McDonald wrote: > > The install went fine but now the box will boot, run through the > > initrd init sequence, perform its switchroot then hang here... > > > > SELinux: Initializing. > > SELinux: Starting in permissive mode > > > > I don't think it's an SELinux issue though, booting with selinux=0 the > > system just hangs after the switchroot because it's not initializing > > SELinux at all. It's what's coming next that's causing the problem. > > > > On a working system (different hardware) the next stage is INIT... > > > > INIT: version 2.85 booting > > > > I've tried adding some debug echo lines into rc.sysinit incase it's > > something in there causing the problem but the init process doesn't > > appear to be getting that far. So, somewhere between the initrd's > > switchroot and spawning INIT something's broke. > > > > It'll boot into rescue mount and I can chroot into the root filesystem > > and everything in there seems to be as it should. I've tried booting > > with selinux=0, noapic and noprobe with no change. > > > > Where next? All suggestions appreciated. > > > > try it with: > > nousb Same symptoms unfortunately. I tried nousb on its own then in combination with noprobe and noapic. Will.