After I inadvertently swapped two USB cables behind my parents' machine, the boot was freezing under Linux (Debian/stable); no problem under MS Windows, though.
A first freeze was due to the discover1 package, just after the following line was printed: Detecting hardware: open_sock(): No such device A Ctrl-C allowed the boot to continue. A second freeze was due to hotplug and was much more a problem. It occurred just after: Starting hotplug subsystem: pci [...] pci [success] usb But here a Ctrl-C had no effect. I had to reboot the machine with the kernel arguments "rw init=/bin/sh" to disable USB hotplug... until I found that this was due to the fact that I swapped the USB cables. First, is it normal that hotplug didn't react to Ctrl-C? And what about the freeze due to the swapped USB cables? (I repeat that Windows didn't have a problem with this.) -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]