FC5T3 hang at 'Starting udev'

[Bill Soudan]

John Reiser wrote:

> Put "set -x" at the beginning of /sbin/start_udev [use a rescue mode CD-ROM];
> boot and see where it hangs.  Later in the same script, trace the system
> calls of /sbin/udevstart:  "strace /sbin/udevstart".

Ah, thanks for the tip.  Here's the prelude to the hang:

cs: IO port probe 0x3c0-0x3d2: clean
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: clean
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff:

Laptop hangs here.

cat /proc/ioports doesn't show anything at 0x800?  Weird.

Bill