[ale] sytem hangs after init mounts filesystems..........

[Courtney Thomas]

Thanks Keith. Good to hear from you again.

I'm trying to create root & boot floppies [2]. My boot floppy is fine. 
It pauses and requests the root floppy be inserted after loading all 3 
needed scsi drivers. Init IIRC then replaces the initial ramdisk with 
/dev/fd0 as /, then mounts everything, the last being /proc 
and..............hangs.

I'd love to "manually step through the startup with some 
debugging/verbose switches" !

How ?

Much appreciation,
Courtney



Keith Hopkins wrote:

> Courtney Thomas wrote:
> 
>> Running 2.2.12-20, during bootup, after init mounts the last 
>> designated filesystem, i.e. /proc, the boot process hangs. No 
>> messages, nothing.......
>>
>> Any help on troubleshooting at this point will be gratefully accepted.
> 
> 
> Hey Courney,
> 
>   Are you trying to boot into a graphics mode?  fb or X11.  disable it 
> by default.
> 
>   Boot to single user mode (boot: linux single), and manually step 
> through the startup (run each script by hand with some debugging/verbose 
> switches).
> 


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