System hangs during boot

["Clark, Brian" <Brian Clark orst edu>]

Hi,

I am running RH 7.2 kernel 2.4.7-10 on a Pentium IV
Drive configuration is - 2 IDE on a Promise Controller confiured for RAID 1

This system had been running flawlessly for 6 months and suddenly stopped responding to telnet, ping, etc.  Upon arrival at the site, I couldn't even get the monitor on the system to show me anything (it was blank)

I powered the system off and them back on to perform a reboot and here is what I get:

...
>Mounting /proc filesystem
>Creating root device
>Mounting root filesystem
>EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on read only filesystem
>EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery

Then the system just hangs.  No disk activity... nothing.

The MBFastTrak 133 utility reports that the RAID array is functional

I tried moving the drived into the parallel redundant server and they cause it to do the same thing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks,
Brian Clark
OUS Operating Systems/Network Analyst
Kerr Administration #B006
Oregon State University
15th and Jefferson
Corvallis, OR 97331
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