On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 10:52 -0500, Jim Perrin wrote:
> On 12/1/05, Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner@xxxxxxxx> 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
