Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 126004
System bootup hangs at "Checking for new hardware"
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:07:09 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: After installation of Fedora Core 2 (2.6.5-1.358) the initial system bootup (reboot after install) hangs at "Checking for new hardware". Installation would hang at "Loading usb-storage device..." unless "boot: linux nousb" or "boot: linux nousbstorage" was initially entered. Possibly related to: 125995, 121859, and 106752. hardware: Dell 4100, 800MHz. This also happens (though very rarely) on a near identical Dell 4100 (the difference being the 1GHz processor) running Red Hat EL 3.0. A reboot will get past this point with RHEL. 1. System installation was problematic (See bug report 125995) 2. After successful install, cannot successfully boot the system. Note: During bootup the following message appears: "agpgart: Detected an Intel i815 chipset but could not find the secondary device." Red Hat Linux versions 7.2, 8.0 and 9.0 previously ran on the same machine on a multibooted hard drive (hdb) without incident. Red Hat Linux 9.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 run on a near identical machine with only RHEL occasionally exhibiting a similar problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.5-1.358 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora Core on a Dell 4100. 2. Attempt initial bootup after installation 3. Actual Results: System bootup hangs at "Checking for new hardware". Expected Results: The system should check for new hardware, configure new hardware if found and continue to a successfull system start. Additional info:
I see the same bug with the latest FC2 kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2, as well as all FC2 kernel updates released until 8/12/2004. HOWEVER: On my system (P4/2.8, Asus MB with 850 chipset, various goodies), the original FC2 kernel-2.6.5-1.358 works fine without hangs during hardware check. This is a software bug introduced in subsequent kernels. Please change this to a high priority / high severity bug.
In my case, this bug is a duplicate of bug 125943. This bug is due to a flaw in FireWire drivers. Removing the ieee1394 modules works around the bug, but disables FireWire ports.
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.