I understand the curiosity and tried this before...but i get just the code for the pressed keys, nothing else. But even more curiosity: I downloaded the live-CD and installed it on the harddrive. the following occured: -> it was installed in few minutes -> IT WORKS!!!! So, what is the difference between the rescue CD and the live CD? I've also tried to go to rescue-mode with the rescue-cd, but no rescue-filesystem was found on the cd...strange, strange... Roger > Just out of curiosity... > > What happens if/when you do a ctrl-c(d) at the udev hanging step... > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Gilboa Davara > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 7:06 AM > To: lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora > Subject: RE: Boot hangs at UDEV > > > On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 19:20 +1030, John Arthur wrote: >> > >> > After having installed F8 last night, I finally got my reboot ;) >> > >> > surprise, surprise, everything booting, grub coming up, nash >> > and so on, LVM recognizing partitions, next step would be >> > starting UDEV... >> > >> > waiting, drinking coffee, no UDEV, waiting one hour >> > patiently...still waiting. >> > >> > Finally i gave up last night. >> > >> > What can this be? Is this know? >> > >> > I use F8 on a HP Notebook XT1000, which was no problem with >> > F7. Where do i have to search? Or is this a known issue? >> > >> >> I have a similar problem with and Intel DG965WH motherboard with over 4G >> ram. >> Passing the boot parameter mem=4G fixes the problem, but now I'm not using >> all my RAM. >> >> Regards John >> >> > > OT. Have you filed a bug report about it? > Assuming that this is a kernel issue (and not a firmware issue) this > should be fixes ASAP. > > - Gilboa > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > >