Fedora-12 boot fails at "Starting udev:"

[Bob Marcan]

On Wed, 19 May 2010 12:24:00 -0400
Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 May 2010 12:08:56 -0400 (EDT)
> William Perkins wrote:
> 
> > They all fail by hanging
> > at the "Starting udev:" line during the boot process.
> 
> The udev step tends to be where lots of drivers get loaded,
> so it is probably some specific driver that is killing it.
> If you could find it and blacklist it, you might be able
> to boot (depending on how critical the device involved
> happens to be).
> 
> No idea how to find which one though :-(.

With the first install from the F12 distribution on the HP ProBook 4710s
i had the same problem. Disabling wifi in BIOS cured the problem.
After first update everything works O.K.
Trial nad error :-)

BR, Bob