kernel 2.6.5-1.356 hangs at boot time

[elitrix87]

I had a problem similar to this when i customized my 351 kernel. When I
ran xconfig, I saw firewire was disabled, so I enabled just in case I
ever had a use for my firewire port. After the kernel was compiled and
installed, I tried to reboot. It started nice until it got to checking
for new hardware (it stops at enabling swap space i think if you press
show details before it gets to that point). I was able to fix it just by
disabling firewire support altogether. I also found something about the
preemptive kernel option having problems like this btw.

On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 22:53, 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
>