[Server-devel] XS 0.7 CentOS boot hang

Sameer Verma sverma at sfsu.edu
Tue Aug 20 15:41:37 EDT 2013


On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Samuel Greenfeld <greenfeld at laptop.org> wrote:
> Given the XS-0.7 does not run X Windows by default, this likely is not the
> problem.
>
> You can try disabling the pseudo-graphical progress bar to get more
> information.

I usually hit F2 to see when it slows down or hangs (like when it
doesn't get a dhcp lease on the WAN port).

Sameer

>
> On a system that hangs, choose to edit the default boot option before the
> countdown timer finishes.  Delete the "rhgb" (Red Hat Graphical Boot) and
> "quiet" parameters, and then tell Grub to let the system boot to see if the
> hang point becomes obvious.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:36 AM, David Leeming
> <david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Apologies if this has been covered before.
>>
>>
>>
>> I noticed that sometimes an XS 0.7 installation will hang in the boot
>> screen (the advancing white shaded bar bottom of screen). I have not been
>> able to fix this other than by reinstalling. I read somewhere there is a bug
>> involving X11 and the fix is to boot in single user mode and delete
>> xorg.conf. But tried that and it still hung but with scrolling boot text on
>> the screen.
>>
>>
>>
>> David Leeming
>>
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