[CentOS] Boot hangs at Initializing hardware... [workaround]

Peter Farrow peter at farrows.org
Mon Dec 12 14:39:19 UTC 2005


I had this as well, on my system, yes the audio was considered but it 
was a USB mouse that caused the problem.

Unplug the mouse and it booted....

strange but true... and consistently repeatable

Pete


Phil Schaffner wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 10:52 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
>  
>
>>On 12/1/05, Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>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
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Odd as it sounds, this happened to me a while back and it was a
>>hardware issue. I had a bad audio cable in the system that wasn't
>>getting a proper connection due to a severed wire. I chalked it up to
>>me not checking my hardware properly on build.
>>    
>>
>
>This system had been working fine until it broke after recent updates.
>Test kernels at http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/ seem to
>correct the problem - see
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172920 for more
>details.
>
>Phil
>
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