Re: kernel 2.6.5-1.356 hangs at boot time

[Warren Togami <wtogami redhat com>]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> Sanjeev Das wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I recently built kernel 2.6.5-1.356 from arjanv at
> > http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/. The system fails to 
> > boot and hangs in runlevel 5 at "checking for new hardware"
> >
> > what could be the problem? thanks for the help.
> >
> > Sanjeev
>
> For me, the problem was caused by my "Sandisk ImageMate 6 in 1" flash 
> card reader. I had to disable kudzu in runlevel 1, then run the below 
> command to get runlevel 5 or 3 to boot past the checking hardware prompt.

options scsi_mod max_luns=8

Try a line like this in your /etc/modprobe.conf.  Try different numbers 
like "6" too.  If this seems to solve your problem, then you need to 
submit information about your device ... uh... somewhere... in order to 
add to a whitelist of some sort.  Reply to this list, CC me and 
davej redhat com if the above suggestion seems to help.

Warren