[PlanetCCRMA] Fedora Core 4 Kernel Problem?

[Nigel Henry]

On Monday 17 April 2006 17:51, Daniel Skevington wrote:
> Hi, I've had a look at /var/log/messages (i don't seem to
> have an /etc/rc.log) but it doesn't seem to keep any record
> of the failed boot attempts?
>
> I'll keep trying to get into the interactive set up, it seems
> to skip past the option pretty quickly though...

Hi Daniel. You have to be quick on the trigger finger for that. In fact I've 
just posted a request to the fedora forum for a line to add to 
the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script to extend the timeout for this, as I'm a real 
newbie with shellscripts.  Nigel.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel.
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris Howard" <chris@yipyap.com>
> > To: "Daniel Skevington" <djis@uymail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [PlanetCCRMA] Fedora Core 4 Kernel Problem?
> > Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 08:42:02 -0600
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a couple of ideas that may or may not be useful...
> >
> > I think when you get to that part of the boot-up you can
> > go into the yes/no manual phase.  You might want to
> > do that and step through each part to see exactly
> > where things go wrong.
> >
> > Then, after it eventually does hang up, I think you can
> > reboot with a working kernal and find a file which
> > elaborates on what happened in the prior boot process.
> > Maybe /etc/rc.log?  or /var/log/messages.1 ?  It's out
> > there somewhere.
> >
> > If it is hanging up in the networking, you might try skipping
> > that step and see if the rest of it comes up ok.
> >
> > Chris Howard
> > chris@yipyap.com
> >
> > On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 14:39, Daniel Skevington wrote:
> > > > Hi Daniel. I can't say that I can help much, but there are couple of
> > > > things you could check.
> > > >
> > > > > 1. Did you follow the instructions for installing the low latency
> > > > > kernel?
> > > >
> > > > apt-get install planetccrma-core-edge
> > > > or for dual processor machines, or with Pentium4 with
> > >
> > > hyperthreading enabled
> > >
> > > > apt-get install planetccrma-core-edge-smp
> > > >
> > > > > This package also installs a few additional packages, rtirq,
> > >
> > > and some Alsa
> > >
> > > > stuff.
> > > >
> > > > > 2. Either with "synaptic" or running, rpm -q -a --last , as
> > >
> > > user. Check to see
> > >
> > > > if along with ccrma kernel-2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma, you have
> > > > kernel-module-alsa-2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma.
> > > >
> > > > > 3. On the command line as root, open a text editor, gedit, kwrite
> > > > > or
> > > >
> > > > something, and go to /boot/grub/grub.conf . Remove the stuff at the
> > > > end of the ccrma kernel line. Something like "rhgb quiet" . Dont
> > > > remove anything else, only backspace as far as the "/". The line
> > > > should now end with LABEL=/     Doing this will display all the text
> > > > at bootup.
> > >
> > > Thanks Nigel,
> > >
> > > I did follow the instructions for installing the kernel, and it works
> > > and is installed as shown by what you suggested in your second point
> > > (although that alsa package is actually listed as
> > > kernel-module-alsa-2.6.12-0.21.rdt.rhfc4.ccrma-1.0.9b-1.rhfc4.ccrma,
> > > could that have anything to do with it?)
> > >
> > > Altering grub.conf doesn't really reveal much, as everything that is
> > > shown on screen still succeeds, this time getting as far as setting
> > > localhost.localdomain (I think) and then hanging.
> > >
> > > Anyone have any more ideas? I'm pretty stuck with this.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Daniel.