FWIW, the systems I'm having this problem with are Zotac IONITX-A-U
boards (http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-ionitx-a-u-atom-n330-1-6ghz-dual-core-mini-itx-intel-motherboard.html).

Since, as I described, loading the forcedeth driver in SL61 makes
/sbin/loader SIGSEGV, I would not be surprised if it was a driver
probing issue with either forcedeth or ath_pci or one of its
dependencies - probably something stranger, since the FMV-A8260 has a
Marvell 1000BASE-T chip and an Atheros wifi chip, but loading just
forcedeth without ath_pci in play causes it to die, so...

- Rich

2011/8/2 夜神　岩男 <[log in to unmask]>:
>> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Troy Dawson<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Can you post the top half of your kickstart file, up to the Packages
>>> section.
>
> For what its worth I've been doing installs across about 20 different system
> configurations lately and the PXE boot and DVD boot (same boot kernel
> anyway, and not using kickstart -- all of these are specific installations;
> yes a pain) hangs consistently in this precise way. Black and unresponsive
> before networking is on.  This happens on exactly one specific model I've
> found so far out of the pack: Fujitsu FMV-8260 latops with (specifically)
> Celeron 540 processors and Intel GL960 Express chipset.
> (Spec link: http://www.fmworld.net/biz/fmv/lifebook/0804/a8260/ )
>
> I haven't had time to research this further and didn't want to before
> posting to list (I've got a lot of other things on my plate first anyway),
> but this is the exact same set of symptoms I've seen, so thought it worthy
> of note. It is that exact model, and not its cousins. Both notebooks of this
> model demonstrate the same behavior, so it really seems to be something
> architectural that isn't being supported properly by the kernel (and the
> noprobe behavior makes me think this as well...).
>
> -Iwao
>