mslinn
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Joined: 24 Sep 2004
Posts: 206
Location: Half Moon Bay, CA
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 Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:58 am Post subject: [partially solved] System hangs without floppy |
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My 120GB raid1 PATA drives are 92% full. I bought a 500GB SATA drive and enabled SATA support in the kernel (2.6.14r2), rebuilt the kernel and rebooted fine. Next I removed the floppy and disconnected one of my RAID1 drives because I was short a Y connector for power to the new SATA drive, and used the power to feed the SATA drive. The system booted as far as loading modules and hung with an odd error message ("add_to_rules: error parsing sysfs attribute in 'bus'"). No problem, I thought, I'll just pull the SATA drive until tomorrow and get a proper Y connector.
I reconnected the second RAID1 drive, plugged it into power and rebooted. I see:
| Code: | md: considering hdb2
md: adding hdb2 ...
hdb1 has different UUID to hdb2
md: adding hda2 ...
hda1 has dufferent UUID to hdb2
created md2
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raid1: raid set md2 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors
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* Starting udevd ...
udevd[968] add_to_rules: error parsing SYSFS attribute in 'BUS'
... swap message looks ok, checks file systems...
/dev/md1: clean, 61/26104 files, 22306/104320 blocks
* Mounting local filesystems ...
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The system just hung there, doing nothing. Could not Ctl-Alt to another screen. After a LONG pause (1/2 hour?) I saw:
| Code: | * One of more critical startup scripts failed to start!
* Please correct this, and reboot ...
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue): |
... there she sat, waiting for me to type something.
I realized that I had not replaced the floppy. After doing so, the system started fine.
How can I configure the system to boot without a floppy? How do I deal with the error "add_to_rules: error parsing sysfs attribute in 'bus'"? |
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