I had the same problem on newer hp hardware, turned out to be an ACPI issue,
yes I know its been fixed for awhile, just I don't think anyone told the HP
engineers yet!
Try disabling ACPI in the bios and I bet its fine again after that :-)
Mick.
Everett Dirksen - "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're
talking about real money."
2009/1/5 Gerard Hooton <g.hooton at ucc.ie>
> Hello all,
> When my Debian system is booting it hangs at
> Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevd
>> The boot just stalls and no other info is give.
> ^C allows the boot to continue and everything (as far as I can tell)
> works fine after that.
>> Any ideas as to what the problem is or how to get more debug info?
>> Thanks.
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