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