Boot never ends

Razien · 2008-05-15 15:42:35

Hey guys.

Yesterday i decided to install Arch, on my second HD

It seems to me, that everything went fine, i just skipped the install of grub, because i already have grub on ubuntu. So i just went there and add a line to boot Arch as well.

I reboot the system, and choose Arch, the boot began, and when i was already celebrating, the boot started to "freeze"

It stopped for long times, on ata1, ata2, sd 0, and then after a really long wait he stop on "CD-Rom driver revision: 3.20"

Can someone plz tell me if i did anything wrong? Is it a problem with my HD's? I have no clue o.o
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on sda i have ubuntu hardy installed
sdb1 it's where i installed Arch, sdb2 its swap, and sdb3 /home.
sdc it's my third hd for files, musics, movies...
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If you guys need anything else about the computer or the installation, just say

Thks for the help.

Razien · 2008-05-16 01:25:14

Well, thks a lot for the help.

It's great to see that a lot of topics gets answers, and i just get views.
Anyway, i think the problem it's somehow with the HD.

I tried installing Arch alone, with no other HD, but the boot stills takes forever and never loads. One thing i didn't notice before is that even when running Arch from the cd, the boot takes a lot of time, but at least it works there.

I'll just stay with ubuntu until i have a better pc.

Factory · 2008-05-16 01:45:20

My friend was having the same problem. He 'solved' this by switching the boot order, making hard drive first with cd-rom second. Try this.

Razien wrote:

Well, thks a lot for the help.
It's great to see that a lot of topics gets answers, and i just get views.
Anyway, i think the problem it's somehow with the HD.

Er, would you rather those people say "Nope, sorry. I don't know what your problem is"?

Razien · 2008-05-16 03:48:00

Yeah o.o
At least i would get some answer, i would know that someone cares, and if he could he would help me.
It's a lot better than seeing 53 views and no answer at all.

What do you mean by switch?
Here i have all the HD's first, and the for last the CD-Rom.

I should put the cd first than the Hd? Is that it?

carlocci · 2008-05-16 15:40:50

Nope, sorry. I don't know what your problem is

_Marco_ · 2008-05-16 15:46:10

please post your menu.lst (of ubuntu) and "fdisk -l" output ..

Dheart · 2008-05-16 18:25:53

Factory wrote:

My friend was having the same problem. He 'solved' this by switching the boot order, making hard drive first with cd-rom second. Try this.

He means to enter BIOS and change boot order to hdd first and cdrom second.

czar · 2008-05-16 19:00:00

Razien wrote:

Well, thks a lot for the help.
It's great to see that a lot of topics gets answers, and i just get views.
Anyway, i think the problem it's somehow with the HD.

ironically, by replying to your own thread you actually decreased your chances of getting a helpful response! many people look for threads which have 0 replies to help out first. By that logic, asking other people to make the first reply with "i have no idea" is also a dumb idea!
goodluck, and nobody owes you anything!

Dheart · 2008-05-16 20:52:36

Also you might add your menu.lst, fdisk -l and where does the boot freeze, anything like last lines?

Razien · 2008-05-20 16:34:53

After a few days away I'm back.

So, here is my grub on ubuntu - just the end of it-

## ## End Default Options ##

title        Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root        (hd0,0)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=db885a2a-34b3-43b3-abdd-2aa7c6b61566 ro quiet splash vga=773
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet

title        Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
root        (hd0,0)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=db885a2a-34b3-43b3-abdd-2aa7c6b61566 ro single
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic

title        Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root        (hd0,0)
kernel        /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root   (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdb ro vga=773
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

And this is the menu.lst from the grub Arch installed

root (hd0,0)
Kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda3 ro
initrd  /initrd26img

Ahh now i see that it's missing the /boot o.o
I guess.

Oh and I dont know how to use this "fdisk -l" my guess is that i need to tell what HD to look, but i dont know how to do that.

Anyway.
The HD is located on sdc and I used the auto configure mode when installing ubuntu, that said I have this HD "broken" into the four parts that were made during the install.
* swap
* boot
* /
* /home

The order of my drivers are that
* HD1 - master - ubuntu
* CD ROM - slave
* HD2 - master - files
* HD3 - slave - Arch

As where the boot stops, i said at the begin of the topic,

It stopped for long times, on ata1, ata2, sd 0, and then after a really long wait he stop on "CD-Rom driver revision: 3.20"

I was taking a look at all the messages that appear on screen, it seems he tries to create the root device, or something like that.

My grub must be all wrong =\

Misfit138 · 2008-05-20 16:47:44

Here's a pretty good GRUB resource. You may want to study it to get you a better understanding which will leave you equipped to properly configure your box : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … er-237511/

Razien · 2008-05-24 17:47:53

Disco /dev/sda: 20.0 GB, 20060135424 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2438 cylinders
Units = cilindros of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc5f0c5f0

Dispositivo Boot Início Fim Blocos Id Sistema
/dev/sda1   *           1        2331    18723726   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            2332        2438      859477+   5  Estendida
/dev/sda5            2332        2438      859446   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disco /dev/sdb: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cilindros of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00054c65

Dispositivo Boot Início Fim Blocos Id Sistema
/dev/sdb1               1        2434    19551073+  83  Linux

Disco /dev/sdc: 10.1 GB, 10110320640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1229 cylinders
Units = cilindros of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x73f973f9

Dispositivo Boot Início Fim Blocos Id Sistema
/dev/sdc1   *           1           6       48194+  83  Linux
/dev/sdc2               7          72      530145   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc3              73         646     4610655   83  Linux
/dev/sdc4             647        1229     4682947+  83  Linux

Hehe i find out that i need the root permission to use this one ^^
There it is, the last HD is the one with ARCH.

Sdc3 is /
Sdc4 is /home

I've edited the grub to that

root=/dev/sdc3 ro vga=773

But it always say that it can't find the root device.
(sorry for my bad english)

I was looking in the /dev folder, and i find out that IT'S EMPTY!! Well nearly empty, it only have these files:
-console
-null
-zero

Ohhh man, i dont get o.o
What have i did wrong x.x

Ohh here is my fstab, in case it helps.

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/cdrom             /mnt/cd   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd               /mnt/dvd  udf       ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /mnt/fl   vfat      user,noauto             0      0

#swap
UUID=1554de60-50c0-437c-8c3d-f94a3159c60e    none    swap    sw    0    0
#HD's
#/dev/sdc3
UUID=2b48e50d-dd5c-496c-b214-fbdee73e3b39       /    ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro    0    1
#/dev/sdc4
UUID=2556ca41-461d-43ad-8eb5-1a7dacddf77e   /home    ext3    user,errors=remount-ro    0    2

Last edited by Razien (2008-05-25 14:51:46)

Razien · 2008-05-26 01:07:23

Thanks for the support guys.

I decided to install everything again, since that even without the problem that boot was taking way too much time.

So this time i started with "ide-legacy" option, and installed everything again.
After some spending my all day with that i finally managed to boot up.

Uhuuuu \o/

I guess my old setup, wasn't 100% =p
Anyway, now it's working, and boots really fast, im upgrading now, and still gotta find out what to do next.

Bye bye

B-Con · 2008-05-26 01:31:06

Razien wrote:

Well, thks a lot for the help.
It's great to see that a lot of topics gets answers, and i just get views.
Anyway, i think the problem it's somehow with the HD.
I tried installing Arch alone, with no other HD, but the boot stills takes forever and never loads. One thing i didn't notice before is that even when running Arch from the cd, the boot takes a lot of time, but at least it works there.
I'll just stay with ubuntu until i have a better pc.

For future reference, you might try waiting more than 9.5 hours before whining. Some people have been asleep the entire time you "waited".

Last edited by B-Con (2008-05-26 01:32:55)

Razien · 2008-05-26 01:36:41

For future reference, you might try waiting more than 9.5 hours before whining. Some people have been asleep the entire time you "waited".

Well that's odd o.o
I'm sure i waited way more than just 9hrs...

1 or 2 days.

Am I getting crazy?
Whatever, problem solved.

Sorry if you guys get upset for my reply ^^'

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