Thank you Omar! - I had totally not thought of ACPI. Adding acpi=off to boot fixes the problem completely. Given the problems which ACPI seems to be causing - including people's problems in FC2 - wouldn't it be a good idea to default it to "off" until it behaves a bit better? I realize that the dev kernels are just that, but to have the entire system not boot on a whim of ACPI's strikes me as a bit counterproductive... (my $0.02, refundable upon request :-) All the best - David On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 11:57:25 +1000 Omar Kilani <omar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > David, Arjan, > > > On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 09:36:01 +0200 > [snip] > > > FWIW I captured all the kernel startup messages via serial console - attached. the last messages I see are > > > > ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5) > > md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. > > md: autorun ... > > md: ... autorun DONE. > > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > > Red > > > > If my interpretation of /var/log/messages is correct, instead of seeing "Red" (no pun intended :-), I should have seen "SCSI subsystem initialized" > > > > Bothersome! > > Booting with acpi=off should fix it. > > > - David > > Regards, > Omar Kilani >