RedHat 7.3 boot process hangs at USB controller initialization...

[Husen]

I have been struggling with RedHat 7.3 installation for a couple of days and I am stuck at a point of USB controller detection. I hope that someone can help me with this one.. The following are what I have done:

I rebooted my computer using the first iso image CD and the installation process began.

Under the graphical interface I installed RedHat 7.3 step by step. Specifically, I chose that GRUB to be my boot loader and installed GRUB on MBR.

I rebooted the computer after intallation was done.

The boot loader (GRUB) successfully fired up and I have no problem enter either XP or RedHat for the first time.

When I boot onto RedHat, a program "XXX" asked me to configure my USB devices/controllers. I chose "config" for each of
the three devices it asked.

Then I played around a bit in Linux, trying to get a feel of this new
operation system. Then, I decide to restart.

Restart>Chose Redhat>Boot>Hardware detection. It seemed that linux was trying to initializing hardwares, line by line, until this following line:
"Initializing USB controller (ehci-hcd): OK
_"

Then the computer hanged at the cursor. Never went ahead. Remember,this is the second time I boot into linux after install. The first time it has no problem.

I have been trying to restart but did not work. Every time it hanged at the same point. Windows XP is working fine despite the Linux.

Any suggestions??

Thank you!!

Husen

[Choozo]

Any devices hooked up to the USB ports, like disks etc.?
Storage devices on USB channels must be 'unmounted' by the OS (Linux) prior to shutdown. If you just used the reset button to restart your box, you may have upset something - kernel module(s), etc. - that give you problems now.

If there is a 'interactive' boot option, like in LILO where you hit 'i' before it goes into its default runlevel, try that. Then you should be able to skip the USB initialization, and probably have a chance of fixing this.

Cheers :)

[bcparfitt]

Husen,
I have the same problem. I just installed RedHat 7.3 and can't get the system to boot at all. I'm hung up at the 'ehci-hcd' USB controller initialization. Any luck with this issue? Also, I have tried pressing 'I' to enter interactive mode without any success. I'm going to as a REAL dumb question.... Is the 'I' case sensitive? I've tried both upper and lower case and can't get the system to jump into Interactive mode. Am I just missing a narrow time window in which this keypress is picked up? Any help would be appreciated.

System Info:
P4 2 GHZ
256 Mb Ram
NVidia GEForce 4MX

[mdwatts]

Do both of you have USB 2.0 controllers as ehci-hcd is for the newer usb 2.0?

Anything in the bios for configuring usb? Try changing the usb settings in the bios and see if that helps.

I did a Google search for ehci-hcd+Redhat and did find one suggestion to add the following to /etc/modules.conf

alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
alias usb-controller2 uhci-hcd
alias usb-controller3 usb-ohci
alias usb-controller4 usb-uhci

Of course if Linux will not boot, you will need to boot with your rescue disk to be able to make the changes.