On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 08:21 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > I'm running FC4 on an HP Compaq nx9110. I have three different kernels > installed. 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp has always run fine and is what I'm > running now. > > Using yum update on occasion has installed two other kernels: > 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4smp > 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp > > Problem is I can't run ether of these. They won't even boot, or they are > going so slowly you think it's not doing anything. They both get stuck > at the Starting udev.... prompt. > > The original kernel whips by that point in no time. I had the problem > with 1526 for a while and figured I'd wait til the next kernel came out. > This morning 1532 got installed and it has the same problem. > > I know I haven't really given much information about this but wondering > if anyone else has seen this before. Sorry if it's been discussed a > hundred times already. Did not find much googling. > > Thanks, > James > > not sure if this is related, but I am having trouble with all the newer FC4 kernels as well, and I have seen other posts that might be related. Is your machine SATA or SCSI? I think they split/changed certain scsi/sata drivers. From what I have seen an adjustment to modprobe.conf would fix it ... but not sure I have not found a fix for my situation either. Let me know what you find.