firewire hangs system at boot
S. Gongola
gongolas at verizon.net
Fri Mar 19 16:28:17 UTC 2004
boot to single user mode and edit the file modprobe.conf
"alias ohci1394 off"
On Fri March 19 2004 02:02 am, bela.patkai at pp.inet.fi wrote:
> Thanks, this "nofirewire" option works, the firewire initialization is
> skipped, but at a later point of the bootup it starts to look for new
> hardware and again the firewire hangs it... So, how could I skip the
> search for new hardware? If only once I could boot I could change the
> kernel.
>
> AV> I believe, what you want to do, is enter edit mode on grub, by hitting
> AV> e, and change your line, adding only "nofirewire" to the end. Then hit
> AV> enter to save your change (for the current session), and b to boot.
>
> AV> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 06:39, bela.patkai at pp.inet.fi wrote:
> >> I installed FC1 on a new HP nx9010 laptop without problems, but the
> >> system hangs at bootup when it reaches the initialization of the
> >> firewire controller (ohci1394). Nearly the same problem is posted on
> >> bugzilla, and I'm sure that the problem is the 2.4.22-1.2115 kernel,
> >> but I don't know how to change the kernel. Or is it possible to
> >> configure GRUB so that it skips the initialization of the controller?
> >> I tried something in GRUB that I found on the web, but it didn't work:
> >>
> >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL =/ hdc=ide-scsi alias
> >> ieee1394-controller off
> >>
> >> Please give me an idea how to follow.
> >>
> >> Bela
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