Thanks for this, I am burning a 3.4 disk now.... P. :-) Johnny Hughes wrote: >On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:13 +0000, Peter Farrow 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.... >> >> > >I don't see any easy way to disable the sound checking .... > >but in reviewing the rc.sysinit file, I see that there is a file named: > >/etc/hotplug/blacklist > >so ... it seems if you want a module not to load, you can put the module >in /etc/hotplug/blacklist .... > >-------------- >try booting with the centos-3.4 disk and doing linux rescue ... > >edit /mnt/sysimage/etc/hotplug/blacklist > >add whatever module is associated with your soundcard >in /etc/modprobe.conf to the blacklist > >remark out (with a #) anything associated with sound >in /etc/modprobe.conf as well > >reboot and see if it works in CentOS-4 >------------- >It could be the next thing that tries to load after audio as well (which >is other) in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit for hardware initializing > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS@xxxxxxxxxxx >http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >