On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 09:25:19PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote: ... > Confirm that removing this module restores boot. > > This is excellent detective work. If I might ask, how did you trace > the module loads and successful inits? Dave, Besides hacking in printk's, often "initcall_debug" kernel parameter is enough narrow down which module is hanging or crashing the system. hth, grant