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* Floppy Drive: | |||
We have encountered systems like a Dell Inspiron 8200 that seem to hang for a long time during the boot process. These systems do eventually boot, but may take a minute or more to get past the ''udev'' stage of the boot process. | We have encountered systems like a Dell Inspiron 8200 that seem to hang for a long time during the boot process. These systems do eventually boot, but may take a minute or more to get past the ''udev'' stage of the boot process. | ||
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Since floppy disk drives are seldom found in current systems, we may decide to black list the floppy driver by default in future versions of the NST. | Since floppy disk drives are seldom found in current systems, we may decide to black list the floppy driver by default in future versions of the NST. | ||
* Network Adapter Order: | |||
Revision as of 06:48, 27 July 2010
Boot Issues
Potential reasons why the NST probe may hang at the Starting udev stage?
- Floppy Drive:
We have encountered systems like a Dell Inspiron 8200 that seem to hang for a long time during the boot process. These systems do eventually boot, but may take a minute or more to get past the udev stage of the boot process.
The problem appears to be related to the floppy kernel module being loaded when the BIOS is set to indicate that there is no floppy drive installed. We're not sure whether the problem is related to the udev system, the kernel, the BIOS implementation or some sort of combination of these.
You can avoid this problem on a hard disk installation or a Live USB boot that has a persistence layer available by black listing the floppy module:
echo "blacklist floppy" >| /etc/modprobe.d/floppy.conf
Since floppy disk drives are seldom found in current systems, we may decide to black list the floppy driver by default in future versions of the NST.
- Network Adapter Order:
