Booting from Centos 3.4, gave me aclue with an error about BIOS handoff
failed for the USB port, so I unplugged my USB Logitech cordless mouse
and rebooted and it worked, I then plugged the mouse back in once the
machine was up and it works fine!
Thanks for all the help
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
>
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