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