[Watford] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot sequence.

Sun Dec 2 10:33:47 GMT 2007

I'd be glad to bring the pc into the next meeting which is 6th December @
7.30pm up on Leavesden Business Park. 

What do we need?
	Pc with working copy of Linux.
	Keyboard and mouse
	Monitor
	Cables 
	The Patch about which this whole things revolves
	Various related disks and CDs/DVDs (just in case)

I gather Internet Access is available through the LAN.  	

If Cliff is happy with this 'Programme Item' I shall prepare the gear and
bring it along next Thursday.

Walter

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From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Neel Upadhyaya
Sent: 01 December 2007 18:55
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Watford] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot
sequence.

OK I think this may be the point where you bring your machine into the next
meeting, if this is not possible then I can give you instructions, but I
feel that a kernel patch and recompile is something some of the other
members may want to see. 
On 01/12/2007, walt <walt at helvatron.co.uk> wrote:
Hi Neel,

Right, I have had a hunt around but I am not really sure what I am looking
for.  I looked up the kernel version of my current system which is
opensuse10.3 – 2.6.22.12-0.1 but I just cant tell whether the stuff out 
there is right or not.  I think I will go for a fresh kernel.

Can I download the kernel source in its original state from openSUSE, then
add the patch into it somewhere and recompile using suse10.2 which is still 
running fine?  I would need serious help though because, being a linux
newbie,  I am bound to come unstuck.

Regards, Walter

From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk 
[mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Neel Upadhyaya
Sent: 30 November 2007 13:15
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk 
Subject: Re: [Watford] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot
sequence.

Yes you can add in hardware drivers at boot time, this is the job of udev
and others. All hardware has a vendor id which can be queried from the 
device bus (have a loof as lspci and lsusb to see what i mean). When the
kernel sees a device it aquires the vendor/device id pair and check to see
if it has been compiled with an appropriate driver, if it fins one it binds 
the device to the driver if it does not it consults a set of files to find
the driver needed (/lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.*), the kernel then loads
the appropriate driver from the file system and binds to it. 

You can add in drivers yourself via modprobe.conf

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On 30/11/2007, walt <walt at helvatron.co.uk > wrote:
I will do that, thanks.

One question,I read somewhere that the latestlinux kernels can be
assembled at boot time.I have neverfigured out how to that but I think
it was in Redhat where some hardware drivers could be added as a script and 
would then 'bound in' (or something) as the kernel loads.

I'll have a look around and see what I can find.

Walter

From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk 
[mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Neel Upadhyaya
Sent: 30 November 2007 12:25
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk 
Subject: Re: [Watford] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot
sequence.

It looks like a kernel patch which means you'd have to apply it to the
kernel source.

It might be worth hunting around to find out is the patch has been included 
in any kernel versions, then you could find a package for that kernel or
start from the already patched source.

Have a quick hunt for a package first, and if you're unlucky then I could
walk you through a kernel compilation. 

-N

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On 30/11/2007, walt <walt at helvatron.co.uk> wrote:
Thanks Cliff,I'll check it out. 

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From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk ] On Behalf Of Cliff Deamer
Sent: 30 November 2007 11:57
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Watford] Suse 10.3 hangs for 2 minutes at start of boot
sequence.

Hi Walt,
There is discussion of this at
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/106121 and a suggested solution.
Cliff

On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 10:07 +0000, walt wrote: 
> Hi all,
>
> Further to my previous email,I now have an error message:
>
> Comreset failed (errorno 960 or 976)
>
> This is what takes ages, like 2 - 3 minutes, before the system starts 
> loading. Can anybody tell me what it means and what to do about it.
>
> Many thanks,Walter
>
>
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> ---
>
> Hi,
>
> I tried to upgrade Suse 10.2 to 10.3 but that failed so I did a clean,
fresh
> install with a freshly partitioned harddisk.Suse displays the boot
options
> screen and then switches to the normal splash screen where you should be 
> able to press esc to get to text screen showing you what its doing.
>
> And this is the problem,its sits there for 2 minutes or more and the
> keyboard won't respond.Then it finally starts the boot process at which 
> point I can press esc to see the progress. Once it starts it behaves
> normally but I have to eliminate the long delay before it boots.
>
> Any ideas?I have already removed all peripherals especially usb devices 
> but to no avail.
>
> Walter
>
>
>
>
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