Lockup on first boot

[digby]

So after many tries, I finally got 10 official installed. All it took was a BIOS update, re-downloading 2 of the CDs (I'll never forget to md5 sum my downloads again), and booting the kernel from the cd with "linux noapic nolapic" (thank you nForce2). And even then I would have random lockups after the license agreement, during package installation, etc. But it finally worked. And then I tried to boot it.

 

Everything was going quite well for the first bit. But then it read that it was replaying journal entries. I don't know how it is journal entires to replay... it's never booted before. But it always freezes there. (I think I gave it two minutes of no HD activity just in case.) I tried this with the default kernel and with the 2.6.3 option that the installer put into Grub. Same results.

 

Standard info:

XP 2500+ on Abit NF7-S v2 nForce2 chipset with latest bios update

1024MB PC3200 RAM

GF4 Ti4600 w/ 128 MB 8x AGP

120 GB Seagate 7200 SATA HD

 

hde5 mounted at / and formatted with ReiserFS

hde7 mounted at /home and formatted with Reiser FS

[Steve Scrimpshire]

See if you can boot Installation CD1 and then hit F1 at the prompt, type

 

rescue

 

and hit enter. Then select 'Mount your partitions uner /mnt', then hit OK, then select 'Go to console' then type:

 

chroot /mnt

urpmi kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.6

 

Then remove the CD, boot normally and select that kernel to boot.

[digby]

urpmi told me that that kernel was already installed (as I expected it would since it showed up in Grub... sorry I forgot to mention that). I didn't know how to remove it once it was installed, but I tried to boot it just for reference, and got the same error. Everything goes fine until it tries to replay the journal transactions.

 

Of course I am now getting error messages about my filesystems not being cleanly unmounted, but that was expected given the activity during lockup.