Tuesday, July 25, 2006
hang after "Freeing unused kernel memory..."
The symptom,
After displaying "Freeing unused kernel memory ... ", the sytem may or maynot display a few more line, then just stop there. You can still type on keyboard and it will display.
Possible reason,
RAM!!! The system happened to have 2x 128Mb DDR (IBM) and 2x 512Mb DDR (Kingston), remove either set of them, the system return to perfect normal.
We tried to install RedHat ES 3, installation no problem, but after installation, system stop just there, can't start.
CentOS 4.3 also tried, can't find root when boot from CD.
SuSE 10, CD boot stop at "Freeing unused kernel memory ..."
Waste me half a day to discover it.
After displaying "Freeing unused kernel memory ... ", the sytem may or maynot display a few more line, then just stop there. You can still type on keyboard and it will display.
Possible reason,
RAM!!! The system happened to have 2x 128Mb DDR (IBM) and 2x 512Mb DDR (Kingston), remove either set of them, the system return to perfect normal.
We tried to install RedHat ES 3, installation no problem, but after installation, system stop just there, can't start.
CentOS 4.3 also tried, can't find root when boot from CD.
SuSE 10, CD boot stop at "Freeing unused kernel memory ..."
Waste me half a day to discover it.
// posted by GlaDoo @ 5:31 PM 
