boot strangeness - FC2 scsi

[William Hooper]

akonstam at trinity.edu said:
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> Now the machine when booting displays the FC2 grub choice screen.
> After the choice is made the kernel is accessed but then the machine
> goes into what seems to be an indefinite hang. But actually, after a half
> hour or an hour (we have not measured this accurately since it took so
> long) the machine continues its boot.

Does booting without the "quiet" option give a better idea of where it
stops?  What SCSI hardware?  IIRC there are some scsi controllers that
take a very long to initialize.

> Now in looking at the system files
> on the machine we find the strange fact that the /initrd file still seems
> to contain the files of the ram disk. It is not emptied as it should have
> been.

Does booting without "rhgb" help?

> The system logs shows nothing that indicates delay except the system
> keeps searching for ide drives that don't exist.

Could you give us some examples?

-- 
William Hooper