Okay, here's the problem:

As Linux is booting, I see
"Booting the kernel... okay.
Starting Red Hat Nash Version (insert long number here)"


At that point in time, i know it's now safe to go make lunch. This part of the boot process takes a good 3 minutes to finish. The first minute, the Hard Drive Activity light is on. Seconds, Off. Third, back on.

Then it boots normally. Everything is fine, its just really a pain in the butt especially if I have to restart multiple times in a row (which is becoming a problem in itself, its caused by my 6800U)

Anyway, I asked my brother about this, who knows a lot about Linux. I remember him saying something about the network. I have 2 network adapters, both integrated. Intel Pro-Set 2 i think. One 100 MBps the other GBE.

Any ideas? Questions? dmesg? Respond ASAP if you can.

Thanks.

From RedHat:

Its hanging on the SCSI module detection. I've read up and this seems to be a common problem.

Any soluions existant?

Or maybe I should just set a jumper on my motherboard to disable onboard SCSI

any other ideas?

Thanks again.

Interesting.... When I disable onboard SCSI by use of a jumper on the Motherboard, the system hangs when attempting to initialize USB Host OCHI-B or something along those lines

But the nash starts in record time just like it should!

Very confusing

Please Help!

Thanks!

Well, this is obviously a problem caused by that jumper -- but you didn't need me to tell you that...

what MB you got? what is the error? which pins did you 'jump'?

Motherboard: Tyan S2469
Jumped: J80

The error:
On boot, it just says "initializing" and nothing ever happens. Usually it intalizes instantly.

hmm...

i've been looking into your problem, and you've done a great job shutting off your SCSI controller.

sorry i don't have more; it'll be monday before i can look at this again.

ok... so let's get back to this....

I'll assume that you were not using anything SCSI on your system, and therefore disabling it should be fine. That begs the question: 'why does FC not boot, when that is the only change to the system?'

1) can you be more specific with what the system is trying to initalize when it hangs?

2) what kernel are you running? did you compile it yourself?

Well, right now it gets to the point where it activates my dia-up connection. As soon as the connection is completed, it says "Spurious interrupt from IRQ7"

Then it hangs.

Kernel:
[ben@Darkflame ben]$ uname -s -r -m -p -i
Linux 2.6.8-1.521 i686 athlon i386

this is a basic assemby-line kernel, never modded in any way

And your assumption about me not having any SCSI devices is correct.

Thanks.

then i think we're onto a new error, and me never dealing with dial-up in linux, i have to suggest you open a new thread. sorry...