From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:58:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:58:38 -0500 Received: from smtp.linuxsecurity.com ([209.11.107.5]:58117 "EHLO juggernaut.guardiandigital.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:58:23 -0500 Message-ID: <3E6F4D93.4010905@guardiandigital.com> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:09:07 -0500 From: Nick DeClario Organization: Guardian Digital, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Kernel hanging at boot Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have this strange problem with the kernel hanging while it's being read from the hard drive at boot time. It starts to read it then the system completely hangs at about 2/3 through loading. I am running EnGarde Linux when this happens, however I have tried RedHat 8.0 as well. With RedHat it won't let me even begin to boot and it complains there is not enough memory (1GB in the machine). I am fairly certain both these issues are the same. Originally I thought maybe I downloaded bad ISO images, but the MD5 sums matched. Then I checked for a bad CDs, dumped them and the ISOs matched. The hardware is an Intel SE7501WV2 motherboard with dual Xeon processors, an Adaptec 2010S with four hard drives configured in a RAID 1 array and 1GB of ram. I have tried playing around with a number of different BIOS settings and haven't gotten anywhere. This may possibly be a problem with the RAID controller since it boots both the EnGarde and RedHat installation kernels from the install CD's without any problems at all and both installations go through without issue. Thanks, -Nick