[rhelv6-beta-list] Approved Equipment List?

[David Cantrell]

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On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Bill Watson wrote:

> Based on your description of what's happening on the Acer S285, it sounds
> like
> the installation actually completed but booting up the installed system is
> not
> working correctly.
>
> For starters, I suggest editing the boot line on the grub command line and
> removing the following text:
>
>     rhgb quiet
>
> The grub menu has instructions on how to edit the boot line.  To remove rhgb
> quiet, just backspace over it and boot.  With these two keywords removed,
> you'll see all of the system boot up messages and you can try to identify
> where it's stopping.
>
> - --
> David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
>
>
> Yes, the installation appeared to go flawlessly. Upon doing your suggestion,
> I saw that kdump had failed, then many processes worked, then:
> crond OK
> atd OK
> mailman FAILED
> then the system hangs. By the way, while hung, the screen saver still goes
> on after a little while and comes off saver mode by typing the any key. So
> the system is not dead, just hung.
>
> For giggles, I then touched the off/on switch and the screen went blank
> other than the blinking cursor, then the system said 'rc main process
> stopped by signal', followed by a couple other similar sentences then the
> system went off.

Does this system have any sort of power management settings in the BIOS?  If
so, disable everything.  Disable all power management and try booting up the
system again.

- -- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI

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