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

[Jim Cornette]

Correction:
added kudzu to commandline

Jim Cornette wrote:

>>
>>
>>  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 kudzu 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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