firewire hangs system at boot

[Arindam Dey]

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 15:02, bela.patkai at pp.inet.fi wrote:
> Thanks, this "nofirewire" option works, the firewire initialization is
> skipped,  but at a later point of the bootup it starts to look for new
> hardware  and  again the firewire hangs it... So, how could I skip the
> search  for new hardware? If only once I could boot I could change the
> kernel.

Enter interactive mode when init starts by hitting "I" like it says and
say no or "n" for kudzu when it asks you for the rest say yes. It should
not go about detecting the hardware then.

> AV> I believe, what you want to do, is enter edit mode on grub, by hitting
> AV> e, and change your line, adding only "nofirewire" to the end. Then hit
> AV> enter to save your change (for the current session), and b to boot.


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