On 10/11/06, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: > 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. The boot message is a red herring, it really doesn't have anything to do with the audio. It *might* have something to do with ACPI ... search the CentOS list archives for a thread with the subject "CentOS 4.2 hangs at power-on boot" from February 2006. I had the same problem, and in fact still do, though now it's intermittent.