[WBEL-users] Stop the Hardware Check

[John Hinton]

Jesse wrote:

>On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, John Hinton wrote:
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>>I have a USB issue. I did an install (respin1) with nousb and all went
>>well until the reboot to first start. Now it's hanging on the hardware
>>detect line. Is there anyway to kill this command from Grub or something?
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>I'm guessing by hardware detect line, you mean kudzu "Checking for new
>hardware...". Add 'single' to your kernel arguments line, then once in
>single user mode, do 'chkconfig kudzu off'. Ctrl-d and finish booting.
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Yup and that got me past that to the next crash.

This is a Compaq Proliant 1850R (a LOT in common with the 1600 
machines), one of the latest. The cure? From SmartStart turn off the 
onboard SCSI ports (if you are using a controller card for you SCSI 
devices). Apparently, Whitebox was looking at these devices and trying 
to make a SCSI USB interface out of them? Seems that the best I can 
figure from what I see flashing by on the screen during boot.

What a dawg this was to fix!!!

Best,
John Hinton