Re: Init hanging

["Maxime Asselin" <Maxime.Asselin@bigfoot.com>]

You could check if you have another tftp server somewhere that is sending a
bad boot image.

Check the boot images for corruption or remake them.

Good luck.

----- Original Message -----
From: <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 6:14 AM
Subject: Init hanging


>
> Hi list,
>
> I have sveral diskless linux machines booting from one server w/o
problems. Until last week. Now, when i try to reboot any of these machines
(I have tried 2 so far), the init program hangs after outputing its banner
(init version 2.78 booting). I use kernel 2.2.19.
> To debug this problem, i specified 'init=/bin/bash' as kernel parameter ->
Boot hangs. Trying 'init=/bin/ash' (ash is much smaller) gives me a command
prompt. I can use 'ls' but when i use 'ls -l' i only get 'total xx' and the
the machine hangs.
>
> This is very strange, especially because i did not change anything. The
other machines are (still) running fine.
>
> Has anyone already come accross this kind of hang?
>
> Or could you give any hints on how to further debug this?
>
> TIA
>
>
> Heinrich Rebehn
>                         "Have disk - will travel"
> University of Bremen
> Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
> - Department of Telecommunications -
>
> E-mail: mailto:rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de
> Phone : +49/421/218-4664
> Fax   :            -3341
>
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