Messages in this thread | | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: strange lockup | Date | 15 Jul 1996 10:05:12 +0200 |
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In article <4scdsh$708@solaris.cc.vt.edu>, Mike Duckett <mduckett@vt.edu> wrote: >I have been having the strangest problem booting Linux lately, since the late >1.3.80's. The kernel boots, init begins, mounts all drives, runs through rc.M, >and locks up after the CD-ROM is mounted, which is before rc.inet1 starts.
Boot single user mode and put the following in your /etc/rc.d/rc.M or so:
/sbin/sulogin /dev/tty8 &
That will give you a prompt on /dev/tty8 and when the system is then stuck you can login and find out what it is doing.
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