vmlinuz-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 freezes during boot

[Geoffrey Leach]

This has been reported to Bugzilla, 448461. I'd be curious to know if 
anyone has seen anything similar.

During boot (not a "quiet" boot, of course, after "serio: ...IRQ" 
output, the boot process appears to stop.  On entering CR it continues 
to "Input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard ...". Another CR and it 
continues to "Input: Synaptics PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad ..." whereupon 
it hangs. No response to CD or banging on the touchpad.

The report says that it hapens in vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 as well, 
but I'm no longer sure of that. Here's what lshw says (full listing 
available, if anyone cares.)

description: Notebook
    product: Z84F
    vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
    version: 1.0
    serial: NB-1234567890
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 smp-1.4 smp
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook cpus=2 
uuid=00020003-0004-0005-0006-000700080009