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 > > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >