[CentOS] system hangs on boot

Tue Mar 28 22:18:01 UTC 2006
Fong Vang <sudoyang at gmail.com>

On 3/28/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> 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.

It's very strange.  I've looked at the BIOS but nothing seem to jump
out.  The hang is occurring too early in the boot process to tell
what's wrong.

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