[CentOS] system hangs on boot

[Fong Vang]

On 3/28/06, Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 01:22:10PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 08:47 -0800, Fong Vang wrote:
> > > I have a couple of systems here that are refusing to boot after the
> > > installation of CentOS 4.3 when done through Kickstart.  They boot
> > > fine when installed from CD.  The boot hangs after grub loads the
> > > kernel and initrd.  The cursor is still flashing. The strange thing is
> > > that the same drive containing the OS installation boots fine when
> > > moved to a slightly older system (older system uses Nacona CPU.  New
> > > system uses Irwindale CPU.  Both use the same motherboard).
> > >
> > > Any idea how to troubleshoot it at this point?  I've tried disabling
> > > USB, APIC, etc. without much luck.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > That is very strange.  One thing to look at the BIOS of the motherboard.
>
> One thing I noticed today is that if you are booting 4.3 with LVM partitions,
> it will take some time to handle them right at the start (right after
> the "RedHat nash" message. In a new machine I installed today, it could
> take as long as 2 minutes (in one of the reboots).

I've left it over night.  It was still stuck after the initrd loaded
message.  We're not using LVM.


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