boot udev freezes FC5 on Toshiba laptop; any get around?

[Doru Georgescu]

Can not boot Fedora Core 5 on Toshiba Satellite A80. Last message
"Starting udev:" and hdd activity stops after ~10 seconds. 

I disabled all I could in BIOS (infrared, network, parallel port,
wake-up on keyboard, wake-up on LAN + wireless, disabled through
external switch) with no effect. 

I tried to enter "interactive startup" with no effect. 

The installation completed successfully, from internal DVD/CD drive,
with graphical interface and implicit options. 

USB worked well during install, since it saw my external hdd. 

linux was installed on ~7 GB free space at the end of the 40 GB
internal hdd. 

I am trying to learn linux, please tell me how can I boot with
minimal devices. 


Video: ATI MOBILITY RADEON X300
DVD/CD: Generic DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device
	MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-8315
Modem: TOSHIBA Software Modem
Network adapters: Marvell Yukon 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet
Controller
PCMCIA and Flash memory devices: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated
FlashMedia Controller 
Sound: Realtek AC97 Audio


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