From: Dennis Edwards (edwards_at_spiff.chem.utah.edu)
Date: Thu May 02 1996 - 11:50:54 EDT
All:
I've used my TP701cs, 16Mb, 720Mb disk. 3Com 3C589C network card,
for about a month now, and am mostly quite pleased with the
total performance and utility IBM placed in this little package...
However, twice I've encountered a problem with Linux (apologies to
those that don't use Linux...). The installation and configuring of
Linux Slackware is fairly straightforward, and I've been successfully
running for about 3 weeks now, including X. But now, when the system
boots it never gives a login prompt. The display goes though the
usual bootup messages and then freezes at this point:
>Adding Swap: 44388k swap space
Ctl-Alt-Del will reboot, and during the freeze there is some disk
activity - probably update is working. DOS will boot up fine.
The first time this happened, rebuilding linux solved the problem;
I attributed the first failure to infamiliarity with the system
and thought I just screwed something up, and wanted to rebuilt the
system anyway.
Now, I'm less happy with the prospect of a system rebuild, and the
failure seemed to have no traceable cause.
Has anyone experenced this problem? Is there a fix? The backup boot
floppy of the kernel I made during installation has the same problem.
I have booted the rescue disk, and can mount the hard drive, but I don't
know where to look at this point.
Thanks in advance for your help.
- Dennis
Dennis Edwards Currently Servicing 5.27GHZ of NMR
NMR Support Services edwards_at_chemistry.utah.edu
University of Utah TEL (801) 581-4208
Department of Chemistry FAX (801) 581-8433
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
USA
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