Linux friendly hardware guy?

[ted leslie]

try to bypass that at boot up - thus in your boot loader
put in  the word   "single"    if your using grub or lilo the boot screen
should tell you how to edit the boot parms, and you just want stick in the word
"single"  (without the double quotes around it)
this should at least get you booted to a shell.
You might also have "FailSafe" as an option in Grub, and if its an old linux,
maybe  you might have to start it with  "linux 3" or "linux 1" on lilo.

if the message "initializing hardware" is part to the main kernel messages 
before it hands off to init and then to rc.d service then you
probably need to boot from a "save disk" or a "linux on cd/dvd boot disk"
and then look at replacing your kernel and/or initrd  file.

you might also want to see if your bios was effected, and if you had special
bios setting for your OS, i.e. plug-and-pray, or LBA (for disk), etc, etc.
But i sonund to me like "initializing hardware"  (when i google)
it is usually accompanied by something like  fb0: initializing hardware ,
or something more specific to a particular device?

-tl


On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:23:59PM +0000, Rob Sutherland wrote:
> 
> My home workstation took a power hit this morning, alas and now it hangs 
> right after it says 'initializing hardware. So, I'm looking for a linux 
> friendly hardware guy to take a look at it. Prefereably someone in the 
> downtown area. 
> 
> Rob
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