[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#612125: Squeeze: bootup hangs after "Parsing ELF...."

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Will,

thanks for your bug report!

On Sonntag, 6. Februar 2011, Will Stites wrote:
> Often, but not always, the boot process hangs up. The last message written
> to the console is
> Decompressing Linux ....  Parsing ELF ....
> There is a quick-flashing cursor at the end of the line (maybe 4 flashes /
> second).
> The only way to regain control of the system is to turn off the power.
> Sometimes a capital "S" shows on the line above that one, something like
> this: S
> Decompressing Linux ....  Parsing ELF ....
> I'm not sure of the exact position of the S. Also I'm not sure if I have
> the right capitalization, or number of dots or spaces.

maybe you can take a screenshot with a camera?

> I have had some instances of the boot process hanging up at a later stage,
> but usually it is at this stage.
>
> This could be a problem with my hardware. I don't know how to tell if that
> might be the case.

do you have more than one disk?


cheers,
	Holger
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