Kernel 2.6.14-1.1719 to 2.6.14-1.1740

[Matt Carter]

The BIOS doesnt have many options (Sony Bios), had a look for Legacy
USB and there isnt anything there to select.

This is the thing that is so confusing, the launch kernel didnt work
for me but I didnt check why, it just froze at the same place, then i
used 1715 and it worked! But then after that every kernel after has
caused udev to freeze for some bizzar reason, it seems it hits the
floppy initialization. Confusing!

Matt

I could reinstall my system but I dont want to dud my FC5 T1 installation
>Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:56:12AM +0000, Matt Carter wrote:
> >  > Hi Guy
> >  >
> >  > Currently I have one working kernel on my system 2.6.14-1.1715, on the
> >  > other Kernels I get Udev freeze. I added a "set -x" and "echo $1" to
> >  > my rc.sysinit to see what was causing the hang. I got this:
> >  >
> >  > +echo floppy
> >  > floppy
> >  > modprobe floppy
> >  >
> >  > This is when it hangs, my laptop has no floppy or floppy controller.
> >  > So i "#" out modprobe floppy from the rc.sysinit script and it got a
> >  > little further, but then it froze on:
> >  >
> >  > +echo echi-hcd
> >  > ehci+hcd
> >  > +modprobe ehci-hcd
> >  >
> >  > Any one else having problems like this? I have been reporting it on
> >  > bugzilla (174270) wondered if anyone else had any luck fixing the
> >  > issue?
> >
> > you could alias floppy off in the modprobe.conf, but that just hides
> > the real problem.  I'm puzzled as to why this is suddenly causing
> > big problems, as the diffs in the floppy driver between 'works'
> > and 'broken' kernels are really benign.  It's a victim of some other
> > change, but what that change is is a mystery to me at the moment.
> >
> >               Dave
> >
>
>could this be an USB floppy and BIOS has legacy USB selected?
>
>--
>Regards,
>
>Old Fart