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**Snowhog** · Mar 08, 2008, 02:05 PM

Re: Booting stops a long time

Edit the kernel line entry and remove quiet and splash so you can see all that's going on during the boot processes. Check to see if your RAID drives are being checked for errors. How big are both of these drives?

As to your IDE HD, yeah, I wonder why it isn't listed in your fstab as well.

**nilsA** · Mar 09, 2008, 06:23 AM

Re: Booting stops a long time

Things are going rather fast when booting, so what I got so far is:

Code:

Loading harware drivers

If I only # out the line quiet splash, then this is where things stop for a long time.

When I remove the whole line,

at some point during the loading of hardware drivers, I find

Code:

attached scsi generic 5

This I guess is the RAID controller?

Then a lot of things are happening, until:

Code:

ata2.00 exception Emask 0x0 sact 0x0 SERR 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
ata2.00 cmd (and a lot of numbers.)

then three times repeated as told in the first post:

Code:

07.043 435   ata2.0.0:  Status  | DRDY | 
xx xxx xxx    ata2;     soft resetting link
xx xxx xxx    ata2:00:  Configured for UDMA /33
xx xxx xxx    ata2: EH  EH complete

This is when things are going real slow.

fdisk -l gives:

Code:

Disk /dev/hde: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7379a210

 Device Boot   Start    End   Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 *     1    7297  58613121  7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hde2      7298   14593  58605120  f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hde5      7298   14593  58605088+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdg: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000122f8

 Device Boot   Start    End   Blocks Id System
/dev/hdg1 *     1   30213 242685891 83 Linux
/dev/hdg2     30214   30401  1510110  5 Extended
/dev/hdg5     30214   30401  1510078+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002d83f

 Device Boot   Start    End   Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 *     1    3492  28049458+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2      3493    3648  1253070  5 Extended
/dev/sda5      3493    3648  1253038+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

/dev/hde is 120 GB @ RAID 1 stripe.
/dev/hdg is 250 GB @ RAID 2 stripe

/dev/sda is 30 GB @ IDE 1, master - but it should be /dev/hda - shouldn't it?

**Snowhog** · Mar 09, 2008, 12:21 PM

Re: Booting stops a long time

Originally posted by nilsA

/dev/sda is 30 GB @ IDE 1, master - but it should be /dev/hda - shouldn't it?

Since (Feisty?), HDs have been designated as 'sdx' regardless of being IDE, PATA, SATA, ...

**nilsA** · Mar 09, 2008, 12:49 PM

Re: Booting stops a long time

Originally posted by Snowhog

Originally posted by nilsA

/dev/sda is 30 GB @ IDE 1, master - but it should be /dev/hda - shouldn't it?

Since (Feisty?), HDs have been designated as 'sdx' regardless of being IDE, PATA, SATA, ...

But ... the two RAID drives are hde and hde?

I have been looking for more during install. Look like the problem may be associated with IRQ assignation. Look like the sdb is the DVD reader.

Can't find it as a CDROM in fstab?

While the fstab file working in Gutsy has two:

Code:

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hdc1 :
UUID=55402cca-548f-4ebb-ac46-d4ec86456ce0 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hdc5 :
UUID=a1f8b187-9635-4cb6-8830-5446b8869e47 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/floppy1 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/hde1 /media/HD1 auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/hde5 /media/HD2 auto nouser,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
UUID=1341bd27-751c-4f22-ab56-1885fa43b024 /home auto nouser,defaults,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
UUID=01460142-0f68-4609-acfa-14d75f27245f <mount\040point> auto nouser,auto,atime,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

What I should have in the Hardy fstab is

An entry for the 30 GB hda - ext3 for /dev/hda1 (moved from IDE2 to IDE1)

For the CDROM /DVD:

/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

or:

/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0 (It should not be /scd0, as it is the one moved from IDE1.1 to IDE2.1, or the one removed from being secondary on one of the IDE cables. And, there probably should be no rw, as it is not a DVD writer.

**Gonzalo_VC** · Mar 09, 2008, 04:16 PM

Re: Booting stops a long time

Originally posted by nilsA

When I come to the progress bar standing just below the right wheel of the logo, the PC seems to stop for a long time.

Then I did boot in safe mode, and found this: ...

Sorry to ask (I'm new!), but how do you do to see the processes running?

Since I have installed 7.10 (first 64 bits, now 32 since some things are still missing in the 64 versions of every OS) the booting process is extremely long: around 4 minutes! and the Kubuntu logo does not appear, also! I just get a black screen until the logon / splash screen appears.

Thanks!

**dibl** · Mar 09, 2008, 04:51 PM

Re: Booting stops a long time

@Gonzalo, if you will restart your system, and when it puts up the boot menu, highlight the Kubuntu line and press "e" and then highlight the line that looks like this:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.24-12-generic root=UUID=4947d60b-b181-4a7d-9c22-f4782ed7cb0a ro quiet splash

and press "e" again to edit it. Now take your curser and move from the right end of the line to the left, and delete "quiet" and "splash". When you have done that, cursor to the right to the end of the line, then press "Enter", then highlight this line again and press "b" to boot it.

Now you will see all the messages about loading the system. Please note the one where it appears to "hang" for a long time -- that will tell us something about what the problem is.

**nilsA** · Mar 10, 2008, 03:58 AM

Re: Booting stops a long time

Originally posted by Gonzalo Velasco C.

Originally posted by nilsA

When I come to the progress bar standing just below the right wheel of the logo, the PC seems to stop for a long time.

Then I did boot in safe mode, and found this: ...

Sorry to ask (I'm new!), but how do you do to see the processes running?

Since I have installed 7.10 (first 64 bits, now 32 since some things are still missing in the 64 versions of every OS) the booting process is extremely long: around 4 minutes! and the Kubuntu logo does not appear, also! I just get a black screen until the logon / splash screen appears.

Thanks!

What you experience is a little different from me, but not that much.

I have now done two things.

First, looking in System Settings -> Advanced -> Disk&Filesystems (It works now), I found some bizarre mistakes. Some of them I corrected as Administrator there, but the worst I had to manually delete: (kdesu kate) open the fstab file.

If you don't know what you are doing, this is where you can really make a mess of things. So if you don't know, just copy the lines, and paste here.

**nilsA** · Mar 10, 2008, 04:01 AM

Re: Booting stops a long time

As indicated above, I found that the File managment part of System Settings do work now. I corrected a few bizarre things there, and then removed my CD ROM lines in fstab.

In general this leaves me with a better behaved system, but still there is the same hesitation at early boot. I'm inclined towards the internal DVD ROM dying. Whe I get the time, I will boot in W2000 and Gutsy, to see what is happening there. If it's dead in all three I probably know the reason.

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