Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] [OT] interesting installation problem
From: Ross Vandegrift (ross_AT_willow.seitz.com)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 03:42:17 EET
> So far I have gone through the entire installation routines for RedHat
> 6.2, Mandrake 7.2, and Mandrake 8.0. Each time the install goes
> flawlessly, and each time the reboot fails in some unique manner.
Do you mean the reboot itself fails or the machine fails to come back up
properly? I have some laptops that are literally unable to reboot, but
I'm not sure you mean this.
> After
> installing Red Hat the reboot takes me as far as the login prompt, but
> after entering the user name it cycles back to the login (i.e., it never
> gets to the password prompt).
Is this as a normal user or as root or both? If you haven't tried it as root
do that. It sounds like a problem with PAM or Shadow Passwords. Which is
odd since it's a fresh install.
> After installing Mandrake 7.2 the reboot
> goes into an endless loop of rebooting. A cryptic "stage 1 stage 2 line
> 127 failed"
The only references to stage 1 and stage 2 that I know of off hand are gcc
errors that can occur when *building* gcc.
[snip]
The constant problems with default vendor kernels really points to some kind
of hardware conflict. I find it highly suspect that they would fail to boot,
especially from vendors that do extensive testing. Try running memtest86
overnight and see if it kills his box.
Try booting the system into single user mode and poking around. Maybe something
is really horribly borked on the disk, causing it to silently corrupt login
binaries ::-)
Ross Vandegrift
ross_AT_willow.seitz.com
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