[ILUG] machine hanging on boot

[Padraig Brady]

John P. Looney wrote:
>  Hey, I've this love-hate relationship with Cobalts. I hate them. They
> hate me. Oh, wait. It's a hate-hate relationship.
> 
>  Anyway...I've one here that's been freshly installed with RedHat 7.3, and
> has had it's kernel, glibc and openssl libs replaced with better versions
> (read i386, or raq3 specific ones). On boot, it gets as far as printing
> the following out the serial port;
> 
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> cryptoapi: loaded
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 92k freed
> 
>  And then does nothing. No IP, no more output. I've booted the disk in a
> PC with a rescue CD, and all looks fine. Any ideas ?

OK init is trying to start at this stage.
Are you sure you haven't a static init with CMOV instructions?
Did you run ldconfig after you updated the glibc?
does init=/bin/sh work OK?
if not does init=/bin/someting_independent_of_glibc work

Padraig.