On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 02:39:48AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 19 March 2007 19:49, Lars Josephsen wrote: > > Comments/Problems: > > I had one recoverable error: "Disk devices may change on reboot". > > During the installation the Promise box was seen as the first drive > > (sda) and the internal RAID 1 was seen as the second drive (sdb). But > > after reboot they were swapped, so I used a rescue CD to change sdb to > > sda in menu.lst. > > Yes, that is a known issue. Glad you found the correct solution. > > > Then I got a tougher error: The system hangs during boot. Not even > > Control-Alt- Delete has any effect: A hard reset is needed. > > These are the last few lines on the console: > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > INIT: version 2.86 booting > > Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd. > > Synthesizing the initial hotplug events...done. > > Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI > > Core version: 0.5 shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver > > version: 0.4 > > input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1 > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > > > I really don't know what is causing this hang. > > This looks more like a kernel issue than anything related to the > installation itself.
You can close this bug: It turns out it was a problem with the BIOS on the Intel Server Board S5000VSA. BIOS version S5000.86B.05.00.0070 from 11/17/2006 had a problem, which has been fixed in BIOS version S5000.86B.06.00.0074 from 02/02/2007. Here are Intel's release notes for BIOS R0074: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/df-support/12880/ENG/VSA_74release.txt You will note that they mention that there were problems with Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The CPU IERR that RHEL 4 had, was the same problem that Debian Etch had. Once I installed BIOS R0074, Debian Etch booted easily and works fine. Sincerely, Lars -- Lars Josephsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LJ667-DK System Administrator, Department of Natural Sciences Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
