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| Author: | gushy [ Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | Hanging at Lilo Splash Screen |
I turned my system off after the overheat beeper started going, then when I went to turn it on it hangs after it says Lilo and the loads the 'Loading KnoppMyth' splash screen (no response to num lock, nothing). Turns out the overheat was because the CPU fan had died, I've now replaced that but I'm still getting the hang. If I boot from a live cd I can see the disk and read files etc, so I'm guessing the hard disk is ok and there must be a screwed config somewhere. I'm not sure why an overheat would have caused this - I shut down properly I didn't just panic and turn the box off. So I guess this problem and the overheat happening at the same time could just be coincidence. Can anyone guide me though figuring out what the problem may be and solving it? |
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| Author: | cesman [ Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:36 pm ] |
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Can you <ESC> to see where in the boot process it is hanging? |
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| Author: | gushy [ Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:23 am ] |
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nope, once the splash appears the keyboard is locked / system is frozen. Possibly I could press ESC when it's says LILO 2X.X.X on screen, but it zips past pretty quick; I'm at work at the mo but I'll give that a go when I get home. I wouldn't mind just re-installing but, as is typical in a case like this, the last backup I took was a while ago (custom configs for usb drives etc). 
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| Author: | gushy [ Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:12 pm ] |
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pressing escape when it says lilo did nothing, num lock still reacts at that stage, but the moment the splash comes up, nada. |
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| Author: | mjl [ Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:33 pm ] |
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Hi, Going thermal may have partially cooked the cpu.. If you have a different box available, hang the drive on it and see if it will boot. You can shut it down safely as soon as you see it is going to run by using the on/off button. The first stages are usually read only. Actually I have built a drive on one box then moved it to another, A few things have to be re tweaked, but not impossible. Mike |
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| Author: | gushy [ Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:10 am ] |
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Yeah I'm going to try it in another system tonight. The CPU should be fine because I took the downtime as an opportunity to upgrade so the box has a new CPU and new RAM; of course I've never had a PC overheat before so I don't know if a hot CPU can cause damage to the rest of the motherboard. |
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| Author: | gushy [ Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:53 am ] |
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ok I put the disk in another box and the same thing happens, so definitely there's a config/data issue on the disk. I'm all out of other ideas (google has not been my friend), so I think I'll have to reinstall. If I back up /etc, /myth & mysql's data dir, will that be enough to set a fresh install to be the same? |
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| Author: | cesman [ Sat Jun 17, 2006 10:25 pm ] |
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Try, boot from the CD. When the menu comes up, quit. Code: mount -o rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
chroot /mnt/hda1 cd /boot cp initrd.gz.orig initrd.gz lilo -v exit reboot What happens? All you really need is MySQL's data dir. Then simply do a manual install and don't touch /myth. |
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| Author: | gushy [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 7:30 am ] |
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I can't get chroot to play nice, whenever I try I get: Code: chroot: cannot run command '/bin/sh': Not a directory
look in /mnt/hda1, it would seem the bin is not a directory |
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| Author: | cesman [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 8:24 pm ] |
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Seems like something is wrong w/ your filesystem... A reinstallation maybe your best bet. |
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| Author: | mjl [ Sun Jun 18, 2006 8:24 pm ] |
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Hi, Try mount -o rw,dev /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 as per Knoppix Pocket guide 
Mike |
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| Author: | gushy [ Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:56 am ] |
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mjl wrote: Try mount -o rw,dev /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
Good suggestion, but unfortunately I get the same error. Cesman I think you're right it's gonna have to be a reinstall. Ah well, thanks anyway guys. Better download R5C7 so I can install tonight, might as well upgrade from B7 as I have to reinstall anyway. 
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