On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:43 +0100, Will McDonald wrote: > I hope the CentOS people don't mind me cross-posting for their input. > > I've just done a clean, text-mode minimal WBEL4 install on an IBM > Netfinity 4500, essentially the same hardware as an xSeries 340. > > 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050916/8e5a061b/attachment-0005.sig>