On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:50, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > try passing "acpi=off" on the grub commandline of the kernel Okay, I've now tried that several times. The first time the kernel froze before reaching the init stage. These were the last few lines printed on screen before it hung: Loading sbp2.o module sbp2: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@xxxxxxxxxx> scsi0: SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices blk: queue c163dc14, I/O limit 4095 Mb (mask 0xffffffff) ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device The remaining times I tried it normally got into the init stage, but froze at this point: Initializing firewire controller (ohci1394): [ OK ] Once, and only once, it actually successfully booted, but ironically I still could not access my Firewire drive. Sigh. What a waste of time. Arjan: would you like me to file this on bugzilla under Rawhide? Best, Darren -- ===================================================================== D. D. Brierton darren@xxxxxxxxxxx www.dzr-web.com Trying is the first step towards failure (Homer Simpson) ===================================================================== -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list