boot hangs

[joe_91]

the redhat as3 box hangs in ..... NET4. Frame diverter 0.46 a long time. what is this? anyone knows?

thanks

joe

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

did this box work before or you have this problem after linux install?

[Jerome Henry]

Yep,

"Frame diverter is mainly used for setting up a bridge with Squid running on it and transparently caching Web traffic between the LAN and the router. It's beeing extended to allow forwarding frames to other machines. It also allows layer 3+ switching".

Well, it's no longer maintained, and hangs often on conflicting with USB detection at boot time.
Try to use the parameter â usb-handoffâ and â noapicâ in grub.conf to bypass the conflict...

hth

[M.Thomas]

i had the same issue and what is that string again |. i could not get it. no points please.

Thomas

[joe_91]

this is what i have in grub.conf today


more grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.4.21-47.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-47.EL ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-47.EL.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.4.21-47.0.1.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.4.21-32.ELsmp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-32.ELsmp.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS-up (2.4.21-32.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.EL ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-32.EL.img

thanks

joe

[Huc_1]

Bonjour!

As always a knowlegable reply from Jerome Henry ,nice to hear from you Jerome!!,I did not know anything about this problem, but this got me reading the "info grub"... lots of good to know in there !,Jerome the options to configure in your previous reply somehow got the wrong encoding and are unreadable, could you post that again..

Jean-Pierre Huc

[Jerome Henry]

Hi Jean Pierre ! Glad to be back and see you're still in !
Joe, sorry for the wrong encoding. So given your grub conf, you could boot like :

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-47.0.1.EL ro root=LABEL=/ hda=ide-scsi usb-handoff noapic

I take only one of your boot lines of course as an example, just add these two words at the end of the "kernel" lines (BTW, do you need that many kernels ?)

Give it a try and see if you get something better... Have you tried to boot each of these kernels and do they all hang ?

Cheers

Jerome

[joe_91]

This machine was built by our build team and handed over to operations (our team). Could you please let me know how it will use all these kernel to boot up the machine or is there any way i can find which kernel the machine uses? BTW thanks for those lines i will try to watch the boot to see if there is any improvement

Thanks

Joe

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

Joe,

By default grub starts vmlinuz-2.4.21-47.0.1.ELsmp kernel (default=2, so it's third kernel - grub counts from 0).
And this seems OK for me.

During boot you can stop grub and choose other kernel.