[Server-devel] XS 0.7 CentOS boot hang

David Van Assche dvanassche at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 01:13:44 EDT 2013


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Just some quick observat
On 21 Aug 2013 10:36, "David Leeming" <david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> That allowed me to establish that it's a HDD problem.
>
> David
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sv3rma at gmail.com [mailto:sv3rma at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sameer Verma
> Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013 6:42 a.m.
> To: Samuel Greenfeld
> Cc: David Leeming; XS Devel
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] XS 0.7 CentOS boot hang
>
> 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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