[CentOS] Boot hangs at Initializing hardware...

Mon Dec 12 19:00:05 UTC 2005
Edward Croft <croftale at gmail.com>

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
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172920
>
> Both Knoppix 4.0.2 and Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 live-CD distros seem to work
> OK on the same hardware, as have RH 7.3-FC1/2/3, WBEL3, and CentOS
> 4/4.1.  The problematic system is an IBM A21p notebook with (according
> to Knoppix lspci) Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 using module cs46xx.
>
> Doesn't really need sound as it is currently acting as a print-server
> for a color Laser, but haven't figured out how to get it to boot under
> CentOS to work the problem.  Will try mounting the disk from a Live-CD
> boot and play with config files next.
>
> Phil
>
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I had a similar problem after loading updates. It turns out that there was a
bug or something so if you were using LVM, it hung the system. If you aren't
using LVM, it seemed to be okay. There was a program that somebody suggested
be deinstalled in order to fix it.

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