Comment 164 for bug 84964

I had a similar problem installing from the Feisty LiveCD using an Asus P4S333-VM motherboard. This motherboard does not have any SATA functionality, nor do I have any SATA plugin cards. The only cards I have installed are a Soundblaster Live 5.1 and an Asus N6200 AGP card. The installation went fine, but the first boot failed with the modprobe abnormal exit. After several reboots, I got to one of the alternate terminals and find that the machine is getting stuck while working with the attached USB devices. (I have a generic 4-port hub by CyberPower and a USB 2.0 7-1 media reader built into my floppy drive.) I have three hard drives on my system. hda is (will be) / and /boot for ubuntu as well as /boot for fedora 6. hdb is DOS6.22, the swap file for ubuntu and fedora and / for fedora. hdc is WindowsXP and hdd is a DVD writer. I disconnect both USB devices and every drive except for hda and hdd. Boot LiveCD, install, everything boots fine. Installed hdb. Re-install Fiesty, everything boots fine. Install hdc. Everything boots fine. I then plug in my hub under power. I reboot, and the system freezes (no Num Lock toggle). Once. After that, it boots fine. Turn off power, install the media reader on an internal USB header, reboot.... And everything boots fine.

I've spent about three hours on this, but I haven't actually started using the system yet. I'm willing to re-install and see if I can replicate the problem if someone can tell me how to generate useful log files.