RE: RedHat 7.1 hangs at "Starting kswapd" during boot

["Smith, James B." <james b smith unisys com>]

Ok, that was dumb! Posted before looking further! Sorry to all! kswapd moves
parts of programs that are not currently being used from real storage (ie
RAM) to the swap space (ie hard disk).  In the other world that I live in,
this would mean that I have a VDM taking up too much memory, or my swap file
is too small.......how large did you make your swap partition?  Just a
thought.

JBS 

-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, James B. [mailto:james b smith unisys com] 
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 1:49 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: RE: RedHat 7.1 hangs at "Starting kswapd" during boot

I'm just learning as well, but I found this link that seemed to explain what
kswapd is and what it does.  Hope it helps!
(http://www.science.unitn.it/~fiorella/guidelinux/tlk/node39.html) 


JBS


-----Original Message-----
From: jim barr net [mailto:jim barr net] 
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 11:15 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: RedHat 7.1 hangs at "Starting kswapd" during boot


I just purchased a book called "The RedHat Linux v7.1 Bible"
and it contained 3 installation CDs.  I have installed Linux
several times before, so the install really was a no-brainer.
 The graphical install went just fine.

The problem is that after the entire install process, it does
a final reboot and when it gets to the message "Starting kswapd",
the system just hangs.  The only way to get out of it is to switch
off the power.  Of course, when it reboots, it hangs at that
point again.  I can never get it to boot cleanly.

I tried re-installing things using several different configurations
(from the "All-in-one" (everything) configuration to a small
bare-bones configuration.)  All resulted  in the same hanging
at the "Starting kswapd" message.

I admit that I am definatly a Linux newbie (know just enough
to get myself into trouble) ;)

I can boot from the CD into a "rescue" mode, but really don't
know where to go from there.

My system is a fairly "vanilla" system...a 333Mhz Compaq Presario
with 64MB RAM, a 4mb HDD, a 3Com ethernet card, and that's about
it.

I installed TurboLinux on it without a hitch, but I really wanted
to "play" with some of the new RedHat features.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!!




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