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greyhat.goon

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From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 57

hangs at boot

Every now and then when I reboot my computer hangs during the boot up process.  I'm talking about the part right after the Arch / Arch Fallback screen when a bunch of words fly up screen, but before modules and daemons are started up.  The last time it hung up on a line which said "sd 2:0:0:0:" for whatever that's worth, but it hangs up on different lines....another line it hangs up on says I/O something or other.

I've been running this machine for about 1 year and this never happened before.  However I did recently install a second internel hard drive for doing backups.   I do use the testing repo, so my kernel is from testing.

campbell@sherpa ~]$ uname -a
Linux sherpa 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 23 10:03:24 CEST 2009 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) II X3 720 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
[campbell@sherpa ~]$

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sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: hangs at boot

A more detailed description of the error message is needed.
Sounds like a kernel panic. Quite possibly a hardware failure.

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greyhat.goon

Member

From: SF Bay Area

Registered: 2008-05-05

Posts: 57

Re: hangs at boot

Well, I've rebooted 10+ times and it hasn't happened again yet.  I'll post something if/when it hangs again.

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