New kernel doesn't complete booting

[David]

John Summerfield wrote:
> David wrote:
> 
> Yes, just an hour or so ago. Not with Fedora though.
> 
> 
> Mostly, what you said is so, David, but there is some randomness in the
> order messages appear as modules get loaded and go about their business
> and sometimes some things take longer than others with the result
> there's some variation in the actual order of messages. And sometimes,
> there might be _some_ messages about something before it collapses. My
> system had messages about disk drives, then the floppy, then more about
> disks, and another about the floppy. At that point it went 100% CPU bound.
> 
> 
> I've just had another look at _my_ problem and it seems it hung during
> testing the IDE devices. Unless those messages were in a buffer but not
> yet written to the console.


I have spent the whole of this afternoon trying to reproduce this. And,
as of 6:00pm EST? Nothing. Best of luck with your bug. To all of you.
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  David