FC3 was installed freshly on this machine. As for SATA, LOL. It is an old PII333 with 96 mb of ram. Been running Redhat 7.3 forever, until I decided to put FC3 on it. IAC, I just swapped out the keyboard, and the new kermel booted up cleanly. Go figure. --- Joel Jaeggli <joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Basil Copeland wrote: > > > Yum update installed a new kernel on me this > morning. > > I've had to drop back to the old one, because the > new > > one just hangs during boot. What I see visually > is > > that the HAL daemon is the last thing to load > > successfully, and then no further progress. > > Was this machine originally upgraded from another > version of fedora or > redhat? is the drive you're booting off of sata? > > joelja > > > Parsing /var/log/messages yields the following > right > > after the HAL daemon loads: > > > > fstab-sync[2696]: removed all generated mount > points > > fstab-sync[2754]: added mount point /media/cdrom > for > > /dev/hdd > > fstab-sync[2845]: added mount point /media/floppy > for > > /dev/fd0 > > kernel: atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. > Some > > program, like XFree86, might be trying access > hardware > > directly. > > > > Any clue on what the last message is trying to > tell > > me? > > > > FWIW, this messages is not repeated, and FC3 loads > > successfully, when I drop back to the previous > kernel. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting > joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 > C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail