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Ht everyone,

I recently decided to leave my older version of mandrake distribusion of linux and try something that at the house were I live is totally new (Ubunto).

So I got the cd and started to install the Ubunto... funny thing is that the process goes well untill I reboot the pc(ASUS A6VM), it starts to load untill it gets to this part:

starting network [ok]
starting hot(somthing) ... _

and it just stops... :confused:

I tryed doing something, it isin't blocked cause I did :
ctrl+alt+f1 to go to the tty1 and it goes there, and there it simply says: Loading, please wait...

funny thing, because I waited about 3-4H. :eek:

If anybody could help me, you don't even imagine how much I'd apreciate...

Rui Silva

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A short, practical troubleshooting summary that fills gaps in the thread (references: original report, suggestion about hotplug).

On many older laptops the visible messages like "rng not detected" are benign: the kernel looked for a hardware random-number device (e.g. VIA PadLock) and didn’t find one. That alone normally won’t stop boot. A hang at a line that starts with "starting hot..." most often means the early hardware/udev/hotplug initialization is blocking while waiting for a device or driver. ACPI/APIC or video driver problems can also stop progress at the same stage on some ASUS models.

Practical steps to diagnose and work around the hang (can be done from the GRUB menu or a recovery/single-user shell):

  • Temporarily change boot options from GRUB: edit the kernel line and append one test option at a time (example tests: single to get a root shell, acpi=off, noapic, nolapic, or nomodeset to rule out ACPI/APIC/video issues). init=/bin/bash is another way to get a minimal shell (remember to remount root read/write first).

  • Inspect kernel and boot logs once at a shell:

    dmesg | less
tail -n 200 /var/log/syslog
less /var/log/dmesg

  • If hotplug/udev seems to be blocking, disable it temporarily from a root shell, then reboot to test. For a quick safe test:

    update-rc.d -f hotplug remove
chmod -x /etc/init.d/hotplug

    (keep a copy of the script or note how to restore it; these changes are reversible.)

  • If the machine still hangs, boot a Live CD/USB. If the Live session also stalls, suspect firmware/BIOS or kernel compatibility — try updating the BIOS or a different kernel/distribution.

Cautions: acpi=off disables power-management features; update-rc.d changes init links — back up scripts before editing. The steps above expand on ’s hotplug angle and provide concrete log/boot checks so the root cause can be identified without guessing.

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I forgot to mention that in tty1 thae mesage that appearse is:

rng not detected

can anybody help me out?

thanks in advansed...

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Hy, Iposted thesame problem in another forum that in my idea has more to do with the problem... sorry for the inconvinience...

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It sounds like ubuntu is having trouble with the hotplug daemon (hotplugd) since the network startup completed. Try booting up in SINGLE user mode and login as the root. Disable hotplugd and boot normally.

Ok now? This is a test and not a good long-term solution as there might be some issue with your version of ubuntu and hotplugs that needs a deeper dive.

Got a tech friend in the neighbourhood? Its hard to diagnose flying blind.

Maybe you want to try another distro like PCLinuxOS.

Good luck.

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