XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid   
      
   I demand that Mark Hobley may or may not have written...   
      
   > I am running a Gentoo Linux based system. I have cloned the hard drive and   
   > tried to install this on several different machines.   
      
   > On most machines this works fine. However, I am having a problem with the   
   > bootup scripts failing on two AMD Athlon based machines. At startup the   
   > kernel loads fine, and the startup scripts start to run.   
      
   > However, they stop when they reach a stage:   
      
   > Waiting for uevents to be processed.   
      
   > On one machine, the keyboard caps lock and scroll lock lights repeatedly   
   > flash, when this stage is reached, but the bootup process does not continue   
   > beyond this point.   
      
   There should be some on-screen indication of why it's panicked. It might help   
   to remove "quiet" from the kernel command line, if it's present there.   
      
   > The other machine does not flash the keyboard lights, but is also waiting   
   > for udev events to be processed and does not continue beyond this point.   
      
   Could be that that one's panicked too, but has a USB keyboard instead of a   
   PS/2 one...?   
      
   [snip]   
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