rtc module hangs system - prevents new installation of Etch from fully booting

2007-05-22 Thread Nigel Tamplin
I have an old x86 system that fails to boot a clean installation of Etch. The cause is udevd (started from /etc/rcS.d/S03udev) attempting to load the rtc module, which hangs this particular system. To allow my system to fully boot and be usable it is necessary to blacklisted the rtc module.

Re: rtc module hangs system - prevents new installation of Etch from fully booting

2007-05-22 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 18:55, Nigel Tamplin wrote: My system comprises a Gigabyte GA-5AX motherboard with a AMD-K6 CPU.  The kernel and modules are from package linux-image-2.6.8-4-486 as ^^^ installed by the Etch installer. I assume