New kernel will not finish booting...help me with this error message?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Basil Copeland wrote:

> Yum update installed a new kernel on me this morning.
> I've had to drop back to the old one, because the new
> one just hangs during boot.  What I see visually is
> that the HAL daemon is the last thing to load
> successfully, and then no further progress.

Was this machine originally upgraded from another version of fedora or 
redhat? is the drive you're booting off of sata?

joelja

> Parsing /var/log/messages yields the following right
> after the HAL daemon loads:
>
> fstab-sync[2696]: removed all generated mount points
> fstab-sync[2754]: added mount point /media/cdrom for
> /dev/hdd
> fstab-sync[2845]: added mount point /media/floppy for
> /dev/fd0
> kernel: atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some
> program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware
> directly.
>
> Any clue on what the last message is trying to tell
> me?
>
> FWIW, this messages is not repeated, and FC3 loads
> successfully, when I drop back to the previous kernel.
>
>
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