Kernel 2.6.23 hangs at "starting udev ..."

[Forcey]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 06:28 +0000, g wrote:
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>  > Forcey wrote:
>  > > Hi All,
>  > >
>  > > I tried to install F8 on one of my servers, but it hangs at "starting
>  > > udev..." when booting. Kernel 2.6.23 for F7 has the same problem. Now
>  >
>  > your problems may well be different from what i had, but i can tell that
>  > if you happen to be trying to boot with lilo, you will have problems.
>  >
>  > booting with grub clear my problems, just took a while to figure out
>  > what was hanging.
I'm definitely booting with grub.

>  >
>  > also, because it does hang with udev, be sure that you are showing correct
>  > designations for udev devices. ie, '(hdn,n)', *no* '/dev/hdx' or '/dev/hdxn'
>  > used in.
I think I am using (hdn,n) correctly. This is the boot parameters
(actually generated by yum) in menu.1st that won't work:

title Fedora (2.6.23.15-80.fc7PAE)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.15-80.fc7PAE ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.15-80.fc7PAE.img


>
>  I thought it was all changed to sd(x) instead of hd(x)? Ric

But another box runs F8 very smoothly with (hdx,y):

title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) noacpi
        root (hd0,2)
        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/1 noacpi
        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img


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Thanks,
Forcey.