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Old 10-03-2007, 12:14 PM   #1
Hagoromo
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[solved] Boot hangs after 'proc on /proc type proc (rw)'

Hi,

after installing an external usb disk, the server (Slack 10.0 kernel 2.6)
hangs after

INIT: version 2.84 booting
proc on /proc type proc (rw)

I have boot with the install cd, mounting the partition and changed
the entry in fstab, but the system don't boot

Any idea?

Thanks in advance
Last edited by Hagoromo; 10-05-2007 at 05:03 PM.
 
Old 10-03-2007, 03:26 PM   #2
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Can you post the full contents of your /etc/fstab?
 
Old 10-03-2007, 03:48 PM   #3
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Can you post the full contents of your /etc/fstab?
fstab:

/dev/sda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda5 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda6 /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda8 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0


in my laptop, after the line "proc on /proc type proc (rw)" the
boot process continues with "sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)" but
I cannot see this line in the pc.

Thanks again
 
Old 10-03-2007, 03:52 PM   #4
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In the messages from the kernel that you get, could it be that the external harddisk is assigned sda, instead of the internal harddisk? Or are you trying to boot from the external hd?
 
Old 10-03-2007, 03:58 PM   #5
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No, I have disconnected the external HD. These messages are
from the internal U160 SCSI harddisk (sda)
 
Old 10-03-2007, 10:40 PM   #6
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This is rather weird. Did you modify anything to Slack10? This kernel (2.6) is it a recently built kernel or has been running for quite sometime? I suggest try reinstall the default kernel from Slack10, maybe this can give you back the control of the system.
 
Old 10-04-2007, 01:02 AM   #7
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This is rather weird. Did you modify anything to Slack10? This kernel (2.6) is it a recently built kernel or has been running for quite sometime? I suggest try reinstall the default kernel from Slack10, maybe this can give you back the control of the system.
This is a compiled kernel, but 4 years ago!

How I can reinstall the default kernel?

Thanks again
 
Old 10-04-2007, 04:34 AM   #8
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This is a compiled kernel, but 4 years ago!
Oh? Was there any reboot since then?

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How I can reinstall the default kernel?
Boot up from your installer CD, manually mount your filesystem at /mnt and your CD disk at /cdrom. Copy the kernel-xxx.tgz and kernel-module-xxx.tgz from your CD disk slackware/a/ (IRC) to /mnt. From here, do cd /mnt, chroot . installpkg *.tgz, edit the /etc/lilo.conf to use the default kernel and run lilo. I did this many times to recover my system when I forgot to keep an old copy of kernel, and the new kernel was not correct built, so it should work.
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Old 10-04-2007, 06:09 AM   #9
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Oh? Was there any reboot since then?
Yes, but only fews reboots ;-)

When I make the 'chroot . installpkg *.tgz',
the command fails with:

/sbin/installpkg: line 1: basename: command not found
/sbin/installpkg: line 1: dirname: command not found
/sbin/installpkg: line 1: basename: command not found
/sbin/installpkg: line 1: dirname: command not found
Cannot install kernel ...

Any idea?

Thank you again
 
Old 10-04-2007, 06:24 AM   #10
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Those commands can never be missing! I believe you may had accidentally deleted some files (or directories?) from your system. Which can be very bad. Try copy the coreutils package from your Slack10 installer and manually install them by uncompressing it: "tar zxvf coreutils-xxx.tgz" at /mnt, after that, try run the installpkg for your kernel again.
 
Old 10-04-2007, 07:38 AM   #11
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Yes, but only fews reboots ;-)

When I make the 'chroot . installpkg *.tgz',
the command fails with:

/sbin/installpkg: line 1: basename: command not found
/sbin/installpkg: line 1: dirname: command not found
/sbin/installpkg: line 1: basename: command not found
/sbin/installpkg: line 1: dirname: command not found
Cannot install kernel ...

Any idea?

Thank you again
Sorry, my mistake. Do:

Code:
$> cd /mnt
$> chroot .
$> installpkg *.tgz
Run those command one at a time after you had copied the kernel packages to /mnt.
 
Old 10-04-2007, 02:32 PM   #12
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sorry, but same results :-(
 
Old 10-05-2007, 05:42 AM   #13
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Try using this instead of chrooting:
ROOT=mnt/ installpkg *.tgz
 
Old 10-05-2007, 05:03 PM   #14
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Try using this instead of chrooting:
ROOT=mnt/ installpkg *.tgz
That's works fine! I have recompiled the kernel and now
is all ok.

Thank you, gnashley & ghostdancer!!!
 
  


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