Re: Hangs in parts.rc

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:26:09 +0100

Roger Johansson wrote:

> So these instructions in rc.parts can work, under some conditions.
>
> This time I saw an advanced setting in the setup, I could tell it what
> partition to use, so I told it to use /dev/hda5.
> It translated that to a longer path, ending in lun0/part5, which I later
> found in the FSTAB file.
>
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 / umsdos defaults,umask=222 0 0
> /proc /proc proc 0 0
> /dev /dev devfs noauto 0 0
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/part0 vfat user,auto,exec,suid
> 0 0
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 /mnt/part1 vfat user,auto,exec,suid
> 0 0

That is a okey device, it depends on the dev system used in the system if it's
/dev/hda or /dev/ide/...

It seems like the system does find the system in the right location.

> So I am back to square 1, the installation hangs in the same place.

Something that don't look good in the log file is

---cut---
> Jan 31 14:58:14 localhost init: Switching to runlevel: 6
...
> Jan 31 14:58:12 localhost init: Entering runlevel: 5
---cut---

first of all, entries clser to the begining in the file should have an earlier
time, which isn't the case here, we even get a secition that is over 5 hours
off time from the rest of the entries. But this can be that when booting up,
time is taken from windows, suddenly the BIOS time is read and then the linux
time is set with the adjust to the BIOS time.

The secon thin here is that it appears that the system is set to init 6 before
init 5, not sure if you know what they stand for, init 5 is used normally for
a graphical environment (Gentoo uses init 3 for graphical environments as
default, but they do a lot thing differently than from other linuxes), while
init 6 is reboot.
If you are already starting to boot down when you get to start the graphical
environment, then you may have services that have been already turned off
whcih can make the system to behavie badly.

Sorry I don't have any better help to offer, I would suggest you to use a
normal linux distro or a CD based one like knoppix or try another distro that
installs on vfat.

  //Aho