Not a big deal, this an old machine... but the kernel startup dies right after the Seagate SCSI driver loads "seagate: driver for ST-0x/TMC-8xx". No error messages or anything, just a complete lock up.
I've been successful making a modified live CD using the 2.6.11-rc4 kernel and turning off nearly all the SCSI drivers (otherwise no changes, I just replaced the kernel binary and the modules with my new ones). This boots fine on this box, so I think that the whole "hotplug-based module loading" deal may be more valuable than I first thought.
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