bootup freezes at the stage of starting crontab

2005-08-12 Thread phyrster
Hi debianers, I customized kernel 2.6.12 and compiled it. I noticed two abnormal behavoirs: vfat partions can't be automatically mounted and there is no such devices like /dev/hda1 in /dev. I have configured vfat as built-in in kernel image and I think this has to do with udev or makedev. But I

Re: Bootup Freezes - Still Need Help

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas H. George
Responders have suggested this might be a hardware problem but I don't see why. I downloaded the latest debian kernel-source-2.4.22 and complied a new kernel. I still have the freeze on bootup problem. The point in the bootup process where this occurs seems to be random. I can recover by bootin

Re: Bootup Freezes

2003-12-12 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 15:42 GMT, Thomas H. George penned: >> > OK, I downloaded Knoppis and will try it for a few days. And yes, I > did mean 2.6, not 0.6. I understood the implication of "test" and had > already reverted to 2.4.22 and the problems continued. In fact, last > night the shutdown

Re: Bootup Freezes

2003-12-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:27:53PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 at 19:11 GMT, Thomas H. George penned: > >> > >> You might try booting a few times from a Knoppix CD, just to > >> eliminate hardware problems. > >> > >> I started having similar problems a few weeks ago. I f

Re: Bootup Freezes

2003-12-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 at 19:11 GMT, Thomas H. George penned: >> >> You might try booting a few times from a Knoppix CD, just to >> eliminate hardware problems. >> >> I started having similar problems a few weeks ago. I finally tried >> Knoppix, and found it froze the box also, and after some more >

Re: Bootup Freezes

2003-12-11 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 10:09:11AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > >For the past few weeks my system frequently freezes or starts in (none) > >tty1 on bootup. The freezes come at different points in the bootup > >sequence. When this happens I can recover by booting up with

Re: Bootup Freezes

2003-12-11 Thread Kent West
Thomas H. George wrote: For the past few weeks my system frequently freezes or starts in (none) tty1 on bootup. The freezes come at different points in the bootup sequence. When this happens I can recover by booting up with bbc-2.1 from a cd, running e2fsck -f on each partition (occasionally

Bootup Freezes

2003-12-11 Thread Thomas H. George
For the past few weeks my system frequently freezes or starts in (none) tty1 on bootup. The freezes come at different points in the bootup sequence. When this happens I can recover by booting up with bbc-2.1 from a cd, running e2fsck -f on each partition (occasionally inodes are incorrect, o