From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: Sometimes the hardware init hangs (at least with a default Fedora kernel), there should be some posibility to disable this by a kernel command line switch... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscript-7.84-1 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: ... Additional info:
Created attachment 104436 [details] This patch adds a commandline switch 'nohwinit' This patch adds a command line switch 'nohwinit', that disables reading other modules, so no modules can be modprobed... This will not _fix_ the problem, but it is a workaround, so you can at least boot up the system...
The same happens here with a minimal install of FC3 test 2 on a P4A845 motherboard and SELinux disabled; the boot process hangs consistently after initializing storage, network and possibly audio (screen blanks at this point, not sure). If I manually edit rc.sysinit commenting out the part about "other" modules, the boot is ok and a suitably placed echo tells me that the modules it would attempt in the "other" part are: i8xx_tco hw_random kyrofb uhci-hcd uhci-ucd (the latter twice, it's not a typo). Attempting modprobe on each, kyrofb hangs the machine.
After the above, I added install kyrofb false in modprobe.conf, which enabled me to undo all above mentioned changes to rc.sysinit (the host is not intended to use X anyway).
This should be fixed in current packages... the framebuffer drivers are blacklisted from being autoloaded.