rawhide-xo 20090519 has great difficulty booting on XO-1

[Mikus Grinbergs]

Using 'copy-nand', flashed ~cjb/fedora-xo 20090519.img to nand.
Booted.  A number of boot-time messages scrolled by;  then the the
XO-1 became completely unresponsive (i.e., the boot process stalled)
- only thing that would work was the button to power off.

   Last two "boot-up" lines that were output (before the stall) were:
     "starting udevd"
     "creating devices"

Had to repeat the power-on sequence many many times before the 
boot-up process happened to get past the "creating devices" point.

mikus


p.s.  During the boot-up process, the boot-time messages scroll by. 
This scrolling gets 'interrupted' by a from-top-down "erase" of the 
lines on the screen (as though a squeegee had been used to wipe out 
what had been written to the screen).  This "screen cleaning" action 
usually occurs twice before the rawhide boot-up process gets to the 
"creating devices" point (where all too often the process stalls).

However (and I can *not* swear to how consistent this is), in those 
cases where the boot-up process got past that stall point (and the 
system came up as it should), I've noticed that the "screen 
cleaning" action (i.e., the squeegeeing) occurred *three* times (not 
two times) before the boot-up got to that "creating devices" point.