Fedora Core 8 hangs at "Starting udev" after install

[thucnh]

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,3)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda4
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,3)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core 8 (2.6.21-2950.fc8xen)

root (hd0,3)

kernel /xen.gz-2.6.21-2950.fc8

module /vmlinuz-2.6.21-2950.fc8xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet

module /initrd-2.6.21-2950.fc8xen.img

title Fedora Core 8-base (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)

root (hd0,3)

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet

initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img

This is content of grub.conf on my machine.
1. The "Fedora Core 8-base" boots well
2. But "Fedora Core 8 (2.6.21-2950.fc8xen)" hangs at "Start udev"

Could anyone know how to fix it. Please help me

Thanks,
Thuc

Hardware info:
- Motherboard: Asus p5ld2-deluxe
- Processor: Intel Pentum D 945 3.4G
- Ram: 1G
- HDD: Segeate Sata2 320G

[glennzo]

I wonder if the boot sequence has gotten far enough at this point so that you could switch to a virtual terminal, CTRL/ALT/F1 (F2,F3,F4,F5,F6), to see if there are any useful error messages?

[epattam]

I have the same issue. any help is appreciated. I have already tried some of the posted solutions like changing the kernel parameters. removing usb devices and so on
Thanks in advance

[rondeth]

Same thing here.

F8 works fabulously on my desktop machine...but the boot fails on my laptop at the 'starting udev' line (hangs, no drive activity).

Tried noapic, acpi=off boot parms, no change. Not far enough in the process to do anything else. Turned quiet boot & rhgb off, nothing obviously 'strange' noted. F7 & Ubuntu works fine on same laptop...but I'd really prefer using F8.

Just chiming in with another example.

HP ZV5000 laptop
AMD64 3200, 1GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce 4MX 440 vid card.

[epattam]

I found my problem , i decided remove hardware one by one, First one to go was my linksys pci wireless card. bingo the culprit,. i started it back up and everything is normal. i think the niew .23 kernel did not like my card. it happened when i installed the same kernel on f7.

do you guyas have a pci wirelss card possibly with broadcom chipset


now i want to know how i can get that card to work

Thanks

[bbfuller]

I too have a laptop that hangs at udev without modification. It's an HP Compaq nx6125 with built in Broadcom wireless. The modifications to the boot parameters that get it over the hurdle are:

acpi=off pci=noacpi

Of course, with those parameters it's back to the old behavior of not powering down at shut off.

Hope that helps someone.

[thucnh]

With me the problem comes from "xend" component. I don't know what it used for, but when i reinstall F8 without this component the problem does not happen again.

Does anyone know what "xend" used for? Please help me

Thanks for your help anyway!

Regards,
Thuc

Hardware info:
- Motherboard: Asus p5ld2-deluxe
- Processor: Intel Pentum D 945 3.4G
- Ram: 1G
- HDD: Segeate Sata2 320G

[matth45]

Try the solution at the bottom of this thread:

http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=171295

xend is the xen daemon, used in support of the xen virtualization kernel (kernel-xen). If you don't want to use xen, you should remove kernel-xen and boot from the regular kernel. Xen is really cool, but adds some additional headaches (especially if you want to use an nvidia driver).