[CentOS] Boot hangs at Initializing hardware...

Anyone else having problems with 4.2 with the boot hanging at

Initializing hardware... storage network

?

Booting to single user or typing 'I' for interactive startup does not
help.  Not a timeout problem - hangs 'forever' - days at least.  Did a
complete reinstall and rebooted OK, did updates and the boot started
hanging again.  Same problem with either the 4.2 standard installed
kernel-2.6.9-22 or the updated 2.6.9-22.0.1.106.unsupported kernel.

May be related to audio as that is the next thing to be initialized
after network.  Looks like BZ 172920

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172920

Both Knoppix 4.0.2 and Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 live-CD distros seem to work
OK on the same hardware, as have RH 7.3-FC1/2/3, WBEL3, and CentOS
4/4.1.  The problematic system is an IBM A21p notebook with (according
to Knoppix lspci) Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 using module cs46xx.

Doesn't really need sound as it is currently acting as a print-server
for a color Laser, but haven't figured out how to get it to boot under
CentOS to work the problem.  Will try mounting the disk from a Live-CD
boot and play with config files next.

Phil