I believe, what you want to do, is enter edit mode on grub, by hitting e, and change your line, adding only "nofirewire" to the end. Then hit enter to save your change (for the current session), and b to boot. On Thu, 2004-03-18 at 06:39, bela.patkai@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I installed FC1 on a new HP nx9010 laptop without problems, but the > system hangs at bootup when it reaches the initialization of the > firewire controller (ohci1394). Nearly the same problem is posted on > bugzilla, and I'm sure that the problem is the 2.4.22-1.2115 kernel, > but I don't know how to change the kernel. Or is it possible to > configure GRUB so that it skips the initialization of the controller? > I tried something in GRUB that I found on the web, but it didn't work: > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL =/ hdc=ide-scsi alias > ieee1394-controller off > > Please give me an idea how to follow. > > Bela -- Adam Voigt adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx