firewire hangs system at boot
bela.patkai at pp.inet.fi
bela.patkai at pp.inet.fi
Fri Mar 19 07:02:29 UTC 2004
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.
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.
AV> On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 06:39, bela.patkai at pp.inet.fi wrote:
>> I installed FC1 on a new HP nx9010 laptop without problems, but the
>> system hangs at bootup when it reaches the initialization of the
>> firewire controller (ohci1394). Nearly the same problem is posted on
>> bugzilla, and I'm sure that the problem is the 2.4.22-1.2115 kernel,
>> but I don't know how to change the kernel. Or is it possible to
>> configure GRUB so that it skips the initialization of the controller?
>> I tried something in GRUB that I found on the web, but it didn't work:
>>
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL =/ hdc=ide-scsi alias
>> ieee1394-controller off
>>
>> Please give me an idea how to follow.
>>
>> Bela
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