Bowie,
I had the same problem yesterday on my laptop with SIS5513 chipset. I've tried acpi=off and nomodprobe - didn't help
I will come back to that problem when I will have time, but what I will do is disabling hardware initialization in default init level, and then I will try to play with audio module manually. You might do the same...
Boot up from some live cd ubuntu works fine (I'm running it on the same laptop right now) and change init scripts.
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Bowie Bailey Sent: 11 October 2006 16:44 To: CentOS mailing list (E-mail) Subject: [CentOS] Server hangs initializing audio
I have a server that frequently hangs while rebooting. I see no errors, but during the boot process it stops at this stage:
Initializing hardware... storage network audio
The cursor sits just after the word "audio" and I have to do a hard reset to get out of it. This server has no audio capabilities, so I am thinking that I just need to disable the audio stuff so it doesn't even try to load it, but I don't know where to look.
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 16:50 +0100, Paul Malinowski wrote:
Bowie,
I had the same problem yesterday on my laptop with SIS5513 chipset. I've tried acpi=off and nomodprobe - didn't help
May I suggest pci=noacpi? It seems to have a different set of effects than specifying acpi=off and I haven't noted (IIRC) anyone trying this and reporting if it helped. Although the doc says IA-32, it does have an effect on Athlons too, so I would be curious.
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Paul
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HTH -- Bill