The story so far:
Since .98 or so (not exactly sure when) my boot sequence would
hang after the statement "mounting local filesystems" ie just
after the fsck checks and before starting any daemons.
the new data:
Commenting out file systems shows that the culprit is the VFAT
disk --- my VFAT system is not a module but compiled into the
kernel. This doesn't solve my problem, though: The boot now
hangs on the hwclock call (to set system time)
I hope this helps someone get closer to this problem --- since
I have upgraded according to the Changes file, I find I cannot
run any kernel after .90 (91-93 at least, as these apparently
have trouble with ppp-2.3.3)
I realize you may need more information about my system, but the
nature of this glitch also suggests you will need something very
specific about my hardware and rather than post the complete
configuration here, please just let me know what you need and I
will suss it out and post it.
I'm having fun. That's the main thing ;)
Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@who.net> -------- http://visitweb.com/~garym/
TeleDynamics http://visitweb.com/teledynamics/ RR#1 Sauble Beach, Ont CAN
telecenter design -- telework systems -- intranet/extranet consulting
"You don't play what you know; you play what you hear." ----- Miles Davis
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