The system boots fine most of the time. I only see this happen occasionally. Where do I disable the hardware initialization? I took a quick look at the init files and didn't see anything obvious in there. Is it kudzu that is doing it? Bowie 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 > > 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 at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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.