RHEL AS4 server hangs indefinetly after displaying "LoadingSwapSpace [ok]" during boot.

[R. de Kuijer]

It is possible that the problem is somewhere in the next rules, but 
hangs at 'swap space'.

Try to boot with knoppix or a rescue-cd and check the logfiles after a 
chroot of the system.
Sometimes it is possible to press 'ctrl-alt-f12 or ctrl-f12' and then 
'enter', the boot continues.

The problem could even be a bad or lost mountpoint.
I had it on RHES4 with a bad smb mount in the /etc/fstab.

Gr. Ronno

Job Cacka wrote:
> Try booting with a CD-ROM. I don't know if Red HAT CDs support this, but I
> have done this often with knoppix and phlak. Once you boot to CD, mount the
> HD and run mkswap. I have actually never ran mkswap in this manner, but it
> should work fine.
>
> Job Cacka
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of unix syzadmin
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:01 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: RHEL AS4 server hangs indefinetly after displaying
> "LoadingSwapSpace [ok]" during boot.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> mkswap is used to create swap area.  I can do that only if I can get the
> system booted.
>
> Please suggest,
> Regards,
> -GnanaShekar-
>
> On 2/20/06, Donald_Duncan_II at dell.com <Donald_Duncan_II at dell.com> wrote:
>   
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of unix syzadmin
>> Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 2:49 AM
>> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>> Subject: RHEL AS4 server hangs indefinetly after displaying "Loading
>> SwapSpace [ok]" during boot.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A Linux server (RHEL AS4 on Dell poweredge 1650), is hanging while
>> booting.
>> It displays the following and hangs indefintely.
>>
>> Loading Swap Space [ok]
>>
>> How do I go about troubleshooting this issue.  Please suggest.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -GnanaShekar-
>> --
>>
>>
>> I too have had this same difficulty.  It is especially noticable when I
>> move from one kernel version to the next.  In order to work around this
>> issue, I simply ran mkswap on the swap partition.  Anyone know what the
>> real issue is?
>>
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