FC5T3 hang at 'Starting udev'

[Harald Hoyer]

Bill Soudan wrote:
> John Reiser wrote:
> 
>> Put "set -x" at the beginning of /sbin/start_udev [use a rescue mode 
>> CD-ROM];
>> boot and see where it hangs.  Later in the same script, trace the system
>> calls of /sbin/udevstart:  "strace /sbin/udevstart".
> 
> 
> Ah, thanks for the tip.  Here's the prelude to the hang:
> 
> cs: IO port probe 0x3c0-0x3d2: clean
> cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean
> cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
> cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff:
> 
> Laptop hangs here.
> 
> cat /proc/ioports doesn't show anything at 0x800?  Weird.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 

/etc/udev/udev.conf:
udev_log="info"

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