Re: Boot fails unless power is cycled

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:42:38AM -0800, 1arryb (sent by Nabble.com) wrote:
> 
> Let me reiterate what I consider key facts:
> 
> 1. my grub setup works __EVERY__ time from a cold start.
> 2. my grub setup hangs (or never begins to execute?) without any console 
> display __EVERY__ time I try a warm boot (init 6).
> 3. i have the same problem with two different distributions (FC4/Centos 4.1).
> 
> Is there difference between cold and warm boots? In each case, I see the BIOS 
> cycling through the configured boot devices. Does anything happen differently 
> after that?
> 
> Or, thinking about it another way, what could different about the state of 
> the system after linux has halted vs just after the power switch is flipped 
> on?

Anything. It depends on how linux rebooted the machine, and it's never a
cold boot just like on power on.

I asked you on another message to try rebooting from another OS. Did
you? I got it wrong then - I understood you do not have the problem with
FC4. Suggestions for other OSes (assuming you do not have them
installed): Knoppix as well as some other live CDs or rescue floppies, a
live XP CD created by BartPE, a FreeDOS floppy, a FreeBSD live cd (I
never tried any but google shows there are a few, and for rebooting I
guess any should be good enough).

You might also try rebooting from inside grub. Press 'c', then 'reboot'.
-- 
Didi