[PlanetCCRMA] New User: FC1 Install (booting) Problems and possible solutions

[Louis Lam]

I'd like to post the full boot-up messages up to the
point of hanging. Is there a way to capture these
messages? Or will they be captured in some log files
where I can read them.

 --- Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
<nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote: 
> On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 18:25, Louis Lam wrote:
> > Disconnecting the SATA Drive allowed the ccrma
> kernel
> > to boot up.
> > 
> > I have the following in /etc/fstab
> > 
> > LABEL=/                 /                      
> ext3  
> >  defaults        1 1
> > LABEL=/DeMuDi           /DeMuDi                
> ext3  
> >  defaults        1 2
> > /dev/sda1               /Music                 
> vfat  
> >  defaults        0 0
> > none                    /dev/pts               
> devpts
> >  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> > none                    /proc                  
> proc  
> >  defaults        0 0
> > none                    /dev/shm               
> tmpfs 
> >  defaults        0 0
> > /dev/hda5               swap                   
> swap  
> >  defaults        0 0
> > /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom             
> > udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> > /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy            
> auto  
> >  noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> > 
> > Is there something I can do to influence the ccrma
> not
> > to read hde?
> 
> Not AFAIK. "hde" (as far as I can tell) is the SATA
> disk (what is "sda"
> for the original redhat kernel). The kernel must
> have some issue with
> the driver for it, and is hanging when it detects it
> (what are the
> messages printed on the screen immediately before
> the one that hangs?).
> I don't think that the sda in /etc/fstab would be
> the problem because
> apparently you are hanging early in the boot
> sequence (ie: before the
> system tries to mount additional drives). You could
> try commenting out
> the entry in /etc/fstab for sda. 
> 
> There may be a kernel boot option to disable
> scanning the sata interface
> but I don't know it. Or maybe there are boot options
> for things you can
> change in the driver than handles the sata drives...
> 
> The only option I can see right now would be a newer
> kernel (2.4.27 is
> out). I don't know when I'll have time to build
> it....
> 
> -- Fernando
> 
> 
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