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@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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