Xia Bin wrote: > I think I've just found the real troublemaker of this issue. That is, I > might have missguided you by suggesting "setting up hostname" in the > thread. In fact, the problem comes from the next step after the hostname > has been set. It is during the "setting up local disk " step. My box > hangs up if there is an Audio CD with data track in my old SONY CDU5211 > CDROM driver during the bootup. This only happen to kernel version > higher than 2.6.11-1.1369. > > So I think this IS a kernel issue and it is a kernel issue with some > certain CDROM formats? Sorry to be rude, but why not take the CD out while booting? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland