Boot hangs on "Probing new hardware" [firewire ... maybe]

[Jim Cornette]

Marc Mouriès wrote:

>  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Smith" <brads at redhat.com>
>  To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>  Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 8:07 PM Subject: Re: Boot hangs on
>  "Probing new hardware" [SOLVED]
>
>
> > A better solution would probably have been to run the command:
> >
> > chkconfig kudzu off
> >
> > This will simply prevent kudzu from running without having to
> > rename the file.
>
>
>  of course but I did not know this command. I am new to linux.
>
>  Beware, though, this will prevent plug-and-play from working
>
> > unless you manually run kudzu after booting. Even then, you'll
> > eventually have to figure out what was causing kudzu to hang and
> > fix it.
>
>
>  Do you know how to figure out what is causing kudzu to hang and fix
>  it ?

I had a failing USB card reader causing me a lockup during "Checking 
Hardware". I guess this is rare to have bad usb based hardware. Anyway, 
some device on your usb buss might be causing kudzu to lockup.

A more common problem reported with locking up at "checking hardware" is 
related to a problem with firewire. I'm not sure of solutions, but if 
you go to http://bugzilla.redhat.com  - you should find a lot of reports 
and workarounds to the firewire problem.

 At least you went to runlevel 1 to "disable" the service. Kudzu is 
started in levels 3,4 and 5 normally.

With my similar problem, I went into runlevel 1 and ran "chkconfig 
--level 3 off"  - This still left runlevel 5 with kudzu enabled. I since 
"disabled" my card reader. (Unplugged it and waiting to trash it later)

Jim

>
> > --Brad
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 15:37, Marc Mouriès wrote:
> >
> >> To solve this problem i booted in single mode and renamed the
> >> file
>
>  "kudzu".
>
> >> Hoppe this helps someone later.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Marc
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marc Mouries"
> >> <marc at mouries.net> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases"
> >> <fedora-list at redhat.com> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 2:46 PM
> >> Subject: Boot hangs on "Probing new hardware"
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I succeed to setup FC2 but i reboot the system hangs while
> >>> "Probing
>
>  new
>
> >>> hardware".
> >>>
> >>> Any idea how to skip the probing ?



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