ubuntu help please.... hotplug problem....

[santu_29]

i just installed ubuntu 5.10, after installation it asked me to remove any cd as the system was going to reboot. the system restarted, grub worked fine, then came the ubuntu screen and below that the processes, starting from 'loading modules'. but when it came to 'loading hotplug subsystem' it stuck, it remained there for around 1/2 an hour and then i restarted the system. i tried again but it stuck at the same point. why is this happening. please help.

my system
p4 2.4, 512 ram, agp geforce 6200, asrock 845 chipset motherboard

[baccilus]

Hi Santu. This happens due to incompatible hardware, either due to sound card or graphic card. Now try doing this- disable your sound card from BIOS and then boot. If this doesn't work, boot from your onboard graphic card rather than the Geforce 6200.This can be done from BIOS too. Just keep pressing DEL key whiile you power up your system. Once you are able to boot, you can look around for the respective drivers and all. Problem solved. Keep me updated on this.

[santu_29]

yep its the graphics card and yed, if i remove the agp and plug in the monitor into the onboard graphics, it works, but then i cant leave the agp. i have downloaded the latest drivers but then you need the os to run in order to install them, hah...., i even tried the resque mode and that too failed to boot the system. what now.....

[ujjwal]

Try booting with the "nohotplug" parameter, that is, select the Ubuntu entry in your GRUB OS selection menu, press 'e' to edit it, add "nohotplug" to the end of the entry and boot. Now you should be able to boot into ubuntu, though you will not have automatic hardware detection.

To enable hotpluggin, you should figure out which device causes hotplug to crash and add it to the blacklist.

[Satissh S]

hmm.. this is a known bug.. in the kernel 2.6 arch.. Due to asrock 's patented AGI technology, you get this hotplug error with ubuntu, suse etc., and fedora udev will cause kernel panic.
A neat work around for this problem is
either quickly press [ctrl]+C when it says
starting hotplug subsystem.. [ok]
but u'll need to be quick at that. Now when you boot into the system execute.

$ sudo mv /etc/init.d/hotplug.sh /etc/init.d/hotplug_null.sh

(press tab to autocomplete). I know this is a cheap way, but it's also simple
now hotplug wont start and probably u'r sound card wont get detected though
you can however compile and install a 2.4 series kernel and continue using hotplug normally.. which i think works. (just a guess)