Created attachment 21776 [details] My boot dmesg output Mandriva-2001.1 (ext4 KDE4) init-2.86 will stop my bootup & requires me to press the ctrl-c keys to continue. This happens on my "Asus" motherboard. However, I can run Mandriva-2009.1 (ext4 KDE4) with the same kernel on my "MSI" motherboard & there is no boot hangup. Kernel-2.6.29 was configured & compiled by me to replace the Mandriva distribution kernel & does not need an "initrd"image. I was using this same kernel with my old Mandriva-2008 (ext3 Kde3) prior to upgrading to Mandriva-2009.1 & it had no problems booting my "Asus" or "MSI" motherboards. I see there is a Bug# 11544 that is similar. I've tried passing the acpi=off, noapic & nolapic to the kernel but they didn't help. I was able to boot by passing the init=/bin/bash option, so it seems the /sbin/init file is ok. Also, I have a seperate /boot ext3 for the "Grub" boot images. I hope you can resolve this. Thank you
I have discovered that my bug# 13465 is probably invalid. The problem was in Mandriva-2009.1 /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit script. The script was starting /sbin/readahead & several /sbin/readahead-collector-* scripts ..but for some reason they failed & this is why my bootup just hungup until I pressed the ctrl-c keys The boot error ("creadahead-collector: Error cannot deamonize: interrupted system call") wasn't readable because Mandriva was using another program called "Speedboot". Once I diabled "Speedboot" & booted the system with kernel option "confirm" I was able to see the boot error & trace it back to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit To be fair to Mandriva though, some, if not most of the blame for my boot problem is my own fault. The prob lem wasn't even a problem until I cloned a working Mandriva-2009.1 to a new disk & installed that disk into my "Asus" box. The old configuration which was valid on my "MSI"system just wasn't valid on my "Asus" system. Here ar the line I comented out in "rc.sysinit" to enable a proreb bootup: ##if [ -f /.readahead_collect -a -r /etc/sysconfig/readahead ]; then ## . /etc/sysconfig/readahead ## if [ "x$READAHEAD_COLLECT" == "xyes" -a ! -f /forcefsck -a -x /sbin/readahead-collector ]; then ## /sbin/readahead-collector ## fi ##elif [ -x /sbin/readahead_early ]; then ## /sbin/readahead_early & ##fi ##if [ -x /etc/rc.early.local ]; then ## . /etc/rc.early.local ##fi Sorry for taking up your time. But, maybe my bug report will help someone else experiencing the same problem. Thank you.