Boot hangsForum: Other Help Topics Topic: Boot hangs started by: Pantonaut Posted by Pantonaut on Aug. 09 2006,12:42
When booting DSL 3.0.1 from a CD in my rather new Dell D410 laptop, the boot process hangs after a few steps (after loading "linux24......." and "minirt.gz......."). Booting from the same CD works fine in my older Dell laptop.I've been searching this forum and elsewhere, but I haven't been able to solve the problem. The only progress(?) I've made is when using the "failsafe" or "lowram" cheatcodes. Then the bootprocess runs further but stops with ... keventd has not started ... Unable to andle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000039 ... <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! Any solution ideas? Posted by Pantonaut on Aug. 09 2006,14:39
Found some relevant info in the laptop part of this forum and got one step further. With "dsl acpi=off" the boot process continues. But I end up with can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry. Dropping you to a (very limited) shell. Will continue searching for solutions... Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Aug. 09 2006,15:37
Try forcing it with with the boot parameter fromhd=<<insert device name>>
Posted by Pantonaut on Aug. 10 2006,11:22
Thanks, I tried loading from harddisk, but can't get it to work. Maybe my limited Linux experience prevents me from getting it right. At the same time, my purpose is to not use the harddisk but to run only from the LiveCD.I also experimented quite a lot with cheatcodes, USB-boot and I searched the web, without any success. Found some input in a Knoppix-forum that was not very encouraging. It stated that "the only Knoppix version that ever run on a Dell D400 is Knoppix 3.6". Hope this is not true. I haven't been able to understand which Knoppix version DSL 3.0.1 is based on. Could someone tell? Still hope to get around the problem, but start to lose hope... Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Aug. 10 2006,15:16
DSL was based on Knoppix 3.4 afaik...Did that person give a reason why it only worked on 3.6? Posted by Pantonaut on Aug. 11 2006,11:04
No. It was just a short note. See point 12 on the page< http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Bugs/3.9-2005-05-27 > Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Aug. 11 2006,16:20
I guess you already tried "fromhd=/dev/uba" ?Sounds like a usb block device... _not_ sure if DSL even uses that, maybe you'll have to play around with sdXx Posted by Pantonaut on Aug. 13 2006,23:06
Yes, I tried "fromhd=/dev/uba", but without success. I'm not skilled enough in Linux to get further at this point in time. I give up.I have tried PuppyLinux and gotten similar problems, so I will have to step up to some larger distribution. My computer works with e.g. Slax and Ubuntu. A pity though as I like DSL... Thank you anyway for the replies. Posted by zxcvbnm on Aug. 14 2006,08:01
I also got the error message "trying to kill init!" (something like that). The problem was solved by removing some RAM that I just had put in, probably it was something wrong with it. I had got it from a friend's old computer.
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