Boot hangs at UDEV

[Gilboa Davara]

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 19:20 +1030, John Arthur wrote:
> > 
> > After having installed F8 last night, I finally got my reboot ;)
> > 
> > surprise, surprise, everything booting, grub coming up, nash 
> > and so on, LVM recognizing partitions, next step would be 
> > starting UDEV...
> > 
> > waiting, drinking coffee, no UDEV, waiting one hour 
> > patiently...still waiting.
> > 
> > Finally i gave up last night.
> > 
> > What can this be? Is this know?
> > 
> > I use F8 on a HP Notebook XT1000, which was no problem with 
> > F7. Where do i have to search? Or is this a known issue?
> > 
> 
> I have a similar problem with and Intel DG965WH motherboard with over 4G
> ram. 
> Passing the boot parameter mem=4G fixes the problem, but now I'm not using
> all my RAM.
> 
> Regards John
> 
> 

OT. Have you filed a bug report about it?
Assuming that this is a kernel issue (and not a firmware issue) this
should be fixes ASAP.

- Gilboa