On 16/09/05, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 12:43 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
> > The install went fine but now the box will boot, run through the
> > initrd init sequence, perform its switchroot then hang here...
> >
> > SELinux: Initializing.
> > SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
> >
> > I don't think it's an SELinux issue though, booting with selinux=0 the
> > system just hangs after the switchroot because it's not initializing
> > SELinux at all. It's what's coming next that's causing the problem.
> >
> > On a working system (different hardware) the next stage is INIT...
> >
> > INIT: version 2.85 booting
> >
> > I've tried adding some debug echo lines into rc.sysinit incase it's
> > something in there causing the problem but the init process doesn't
> > appear to be getting that far. So, somewhere between the initrd's
> > switchroot and spawning INIT something's broke.
> >
> > It'll boot into rescue mount and I can chroot into the root filesystem
> > and everything in there seems to be as it should. I've tried booting
> > with selinux=0, noapic and noprobe with no change.
> >
> > Where next? All suggestions appreciated.
> >
>
> try it with:
>
> nousb
Same symptoms unfortunately. I tried nousb on its own then in
combination with noprobe and noapic.
Will.
