[SOLVED] LFS6.8 won't boot

AndrewJM · 06-20-2011, 11:30 AM

My new build of LFS 6.8 stops during the boot process. The last two messages are:

[ 2.789656] sd 2:0:0:0 Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[ 2.799125] sd 2:0:0:0 [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk

I have no true SCSI devices on this system.

After these messages I can't CTL-ALT-DEL to reboot - only a power off works.

Are there any traces that I can use to determine why this happens? My inittab is directly from the book and my FSTAB looks correct too.

Thanks

business_kid · 06-20-2011, 01:35 PM

Sata & pata devices pretend to be scsi, to answer that bit.

Grub finds the kernel, which is loaded, boots, mounts the root drive as specified by root= on the command line, and runs /sbin/init, which runs all your startup files in order. How far do you get? What's the last things to run successfully?

AndrewJM · 06-20-2011, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by business_kid

How far do you get? What's the last things to run successfully?

I don't know how to tell how far it got - there are no daemons being loaded yet, I have no access to anything, ALT-F2 does nothing. Are there any traces I could do?

Looking at an old /var/log/kern.log from a previous build (there isn't one generated for this one) it seems the next message I would expect is "Adding 8191996K swap on /dev/sdb3"

business_kid · 06-21-2011, 03:57 AM

Your kernel is hanging.

Is there a swap drive in /etc/fstab? It's also mounting all non root partitions around then, which depends on the order in your fstab. Have you run mkswap on the swap? Anything silly in fstab?

AndrewJM · 06-21-2011, 09:58 AM

My host system (probably HDD failure) has crashed - this is an old PC that was ready for the scrapheap (sorry, I mean recycling) so I'm not surprised. I am marking this as solved.

Thanks