Re: Boot fails unless power is cycled

[1arryb (sent by Nabble.com)]

Let me reiterate what I consider key facts:

1. my grub setup works __EVERY__ time from a cold start.
2. my grub setup hangs (or never begins to execute?) without any console display __EVERY__ time I try a warm boot (init 6).
3. i have the same problem with two different distributions (FC4/Centos 4.1).

Is there difference between cold and warm boots? In each case, I see the BIOS cycling through the configured boot devices. Does anything happen differently after that?

Or, thinking about it another way, what could different about the state of the system after linux has halted vs just after the power switch is flipped on?

It's also time I disclosed my Grub/disk setup (This one's from CentOS, but the FC4 install creates the same thing).

My fstab:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/               /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
none                    /dev/pts            devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /dev/shm           tmpfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/export      /export/data       ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/export2    /export/data2      ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                  proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/sda2             swap                   swap    defaults        0 0

# The ram-backed filesystem for ganglia RRD graph databases.
#tmpfs /var/lib/ganglia/rrds tmpfs size=502477000,gid=nobody,uid=nobody,defaults 1 0
/dev/hda              /media/cdrecorder       auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,m
anaged 0 0

My Menu.lst (all files referenced exist)

#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Rocks (2.6.9-22.EL)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-22.EL.img


My Grub.conf (identical to menu.list)

Larry

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