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

[walt]

I will do that, thanks.

One question,  I read somewhere that the latest  linux kernels can be
assembled at boot time.  I have never  figured 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.

-----Original Message-----
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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