Basically what happens is that I do an 'everything' install (required for this machine) and all goes well, then when it does its first full bootup it is hung forever. Obviously the box *does* boot up fully, because I can ssh into it if I wait a little bit. But I am wondering how to kill HAL, whatever that is. Actually I don't want to just kill it, I want to permanently disable it if there is a way to do that. So my options are: - Any kernel parameters to pass at the same time? Already have 'rhgb quiet' appended (install did it not me); - When I ssh in, can anyone tell me how to turn it all off via CLI? I know how to do kill -9 but I don't know enough about init and related bootup files. I do not want to just do a ps -ef| grep HAL* and kill it by process number. Instead I want to remove it but I would also like to know what the heck it is, for curiosity's sake. - Does anyone know of a specific HAL daemon rpm package that I could just remove? I do know how to do that. - Which brings me to the 'everything' install. Is this really safe to do? I am given req's to do that with this machine, but ordinarily I would want to do a somewhat conservative type of install, adding in only what I think I need, or might need. SELinux is off on this machine, as is the firewall so I know they aren't interfering. - Oh, one more thing, please don't tell me to just do up2date. I am on a disconnected DoD network and I cannot just connect up to the RHN / Internet for that for both security related and procedural reasons. Thanks in advance, Marc