FC5 on Toshiba Tecra A6 (hangs when booting at udev)

[Simon]

Hi Tony,

On 5/6/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> At 3:49 PM +1200 5/5/06, Simon wrote:
> >Hi There,
> >
> >Sorry - my last post was a little vauge before... There is a bit more info:
> >
> >I have installed FC5 on my Tecra A6 laptop, everything installed
> >correctly, but on boot - it first sets the clock, then stalls at
> >'udev'. After doing some digging in this forum, i have tried various
> >things but am still having problems. I have changed the default value
> >of udev_log from "err" to "info" in /etc/udev/udev.conf. This now
> >shows where udev gets, which is:
> >
> >udevd_event[1004]: udev_event_run: seq 582 finished
> >
> >If i add "noacpi MEM=512M" to the linux kernel line in grub, then it hangs
> >here:
> >
> >udevd_event[960]: run_program: '/sbin/modprobe' returned with status 0
> >udevd_event[960]: pass_env_to_socket: passed -1 bytes to socket
> >'/org/kernel/udev/monitor'
> >
> >(I have have tryed commenting out "ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="?*",
> >ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $env{MODALIAS}"" from the
> >/etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rule file as suggested elsewhere in this
> >forum)
> >
> >Note: This laptop has a ATI Raedon card and a Intel Core Duo processor.
> >
> >Any help/suggestions are most appreciated.
>
> Maybe it's not udev but the next thing after udev runs.  Have you tried
> booting without "rhgb quiet"?  More messages might show up.
>
> I assume that you are still running the original kernel, and not the
> problematic 2107 kernel.

I seem to remember that "rhgb quiet" is already in the kernel line...
so yes. Also, i just downloaded the latest DVD image and installed
that - so what ever kernel that installed by default.

Hmmm...