Re: Salix-live 3.0.2 RC2
Posted: 12. Mar 2010, 17:12
Following Akuna's suggestoin, I've cleaned up the initial display. This time, I tried starting the NAS box in text mode. After the keyboard load, it starts the HAL daemon, at which point everything stopped for a while.JRD wrote:I'm heavy interresting in knowing what happens. If you could help it could be great. I suspect some graphical problem since it hangs just aftet the keyboard loading, which is quite the last thing done before loading Xorg.toothandnail wrote:Boot never completes on that box
I left it for a few minutes, then went back in and found that it was sitting at a login prompt.
I then tried a normal graphical start. This time, it got past the HAL daemon load, then came up with an error in rc.live as below:
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line 77 7089 bus error /sbin/ldconfig
I think it was searching for hard drives (and as I said, at the moment, there are no drives of any sort in the box - just the USB stick it was booting from. I'll have a look at rc.live to see what it is doing, but I think the delay was just while it tried to find other devices.
It was a bit slow booting from the NAS box, but the T61 is a 2GHz Core2Duo, while the NAS box is an AMD Sempron 140 (single core, 2.7 GHz), so that may explain most of the difference.
I'll test it again once I've got at least the system drive mounted in the NAS, see if it makes a difference to the boot speed.BTW, while I remember. While watching the startup, I noticed that it loads the US keyboard layout, then, a few seconds later, loads the UK key map. A bit strange....
Paul.
Maybe. Or maybe something else - it looks as though the motherboard in that machine has died. Just what I needed. Its under waranty, but the orginal packaging was destroyed (water damage) so I may not even be able to make a warranty claim. 