First time it takes, it takes a long time some times in oder to comlete !!;-) Just let it do. I believe it will not take more than 10-15 mins. I think eveything wil go fine. Nikos ============================================ It's up to you.....Make it happen On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:13:51 +0000, Peter Farrow <peter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear All > > I've just installed Centos 4.0 on a Fujitsu Amilo 1630 laptop (Athlon 64 > 3700+ 1GB RAM), > > I ran Centos 3.4 32 bit on it fine, so I decided to wipe it and load > centos 4.0 from scratch. > > The install went fine, no problems at all, but when it comes to boot > centos it hangs at the point > Press "I" for interactive startup... > udev... > "initializing hardware .... audio" > > Its a hard freeze, cntrl-alt-del won't get you out of it, and the only > way out is to power down, (a few seconds after this message the keyboard > locks up too.) > > Furthermore if I try and boot in single user mode it does the same > thing, trying rescue mode from the DVD freezes as well. > > I can't turn off the audio in the BIOS on this laptop > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated > > Thanks > > Pete > ps: happy easter to you all.... > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >