-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Jul 8, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> >> it will give you detailed logs of the boot process so you can review >> it and see what's happen instead of trying to read it as it zips (in >> your case, crawls?) by. > > Got it. I can also cut and paste to show that I'm not dreaming. For > instance, note what happens 17:31 - 17:34 below: > > Sat Jul 8 13:30:50 2006: bootlogd. > Sat Jul 8 13:30:50 2006: Setting parameters of disc: (none). > Sat Jul 8 13:30:50 2006: Activating swap. > Sat Jul 8 13:30:50 2006: Checking root file system... > Sat Jul 8 13:30:50 2006: fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) > Sat Jul 8 13:30:50 2006: /: clean, 109091/663872 files, 485986/1327362 > blocks > Sat Jul 8 17:31:01 2006: System time was Sat Jul 8 21:31:01 UTC 2006. > Sat Jul 8 17:31:01 2006: Setting the System Clock using the Hardware > Clock as reference... > Sat Jul 8 17:31:03 2006: System Clock set. System local time is now Sat > Jul 8 17:31:03 EDT 2006. > Sat Jul 8 17:31:03 2006: Cleaning up ifupdown...done. > Sat Jul 8 17:31:04 2006: Calculating module dependencies... done. > Sat Jul 8 17:33:38 2006: Loading modules: ide-cd ide-detect ide-disk
A 3.5 minute module dependency calculation is quite odd. > psmouse modprobe: Can't locate module psmouse > Sat Jul 8 17:33:54 2006: > Sat Jul 8 17:34:08 2006: Checking all file systems... > Sat Jul 8 17:34:09 2006: fsck 1.37 (21-Mar-2005) > Sat Jul 8 17:34:09 2006: /home: clean, 130/1700608 files, 61702/3399747 > blocks > Sat Jul 8 17:34:09 2006: Setting kernel variables ... > [...snip...] > > > BTW, I'm running 2.4.27-2-386 That's 2 years old. Any particular reason you aren't running 2.6? (No, "it's unstable" is *not* a valid reason.") > and hdparm reports: > > /dev/hda: > multcount = 16 (on) > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq = 0 (off) > using_dma = 1 (on) > keepsettings = 0 (off) > readonly = 0 (off) > readahead = 8 (on) > geometry = 2434/255/63, sectors = 39102336, start = 0 That might be part of your trouble. /dev/hda: multcount = 0 (off) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) <<<<<<<< unmaskirq = 1 (on) <<<<<<<< using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 30401/255/63, sectors = 488397168, start = 0 - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEsEPxS9HxQb37XmcRAl64AJwM/B7m2Wai94x2eVZCBMO88+g81QCfcMAj 5M3cl2euUoBlxIjCIM3XpS4= =i9jf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
