There's something wrong with the USB BIOS (?) of this notebook, that has always caused Linux to freeze when ohci-hcd is initialized before ehci-hcd, if there's any USB (2.0?) device connected (say, an external HD holding a mirror of the root filesystem, or even a simple mouse) I've always been able to work around this problem by forcing ehci-hcd to be loaded before ohci-hcd, with modprobe.conf magic. Obviously, this doesn't work when ohci-hcd and ehci-hcd are built-in. ohci-hcd is always initialized first, freezing the system. Actually... The system doesn't freeze completely: it appears to hang for a while (15-60 seconds), and then continue booting up. I guess I'd never waited that long before, when [oe]hci-hcd were modules... Since it doesn't really freeze, this is not critical, but it might generate bug-reporting noise, in that people may think the machine actually froze.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
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