On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 8:00 PM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a rather "old" computer out in my shop with > SL6.5, x64 on it. It has run beautifully on Linux > for years and years. > > Now, when it boots up, it freeze up at "udev". > Nothing else shows other than udev. I have to > pull the power plug and try again. Then it > works fine. > > The symptom is reproducible with my Fedora Core 20 > Live USB flash drive. Freeze up at the start of the > Fedora Tear Drop logo. > > The RAID controller and everything else in BIOS > always works. > > Any idea how to approach troubleshooting this? > I figure it is either the motherboard, the memory, > or the CPU.
Motherboard battery? Can you boot an Ubuntu Live CD, because those tend to have more recent kernels than SL, and more stable ones than Fedora.
