On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:11 -0800, Zhi-Wei Lu wrote: > Hi, > > It takes the installer a LONG time to load the SCSI module "mptspi", > this module appears to cause a lot problems, the keys on the keyboard > (USB or PS2) are unresponsive except CONTROL-ALT-DELETE, DHCP and NFS > all seem to fail. If you have problems with a disk or disk controller being slow to load or be recoginsed by udev, there is a boot time parameter udev_timeout On the boot stanza in grub or lilo add udev_timeout=NN where NN is in seconds I would think that your problem is not this, as the symptoms sound different. Martin will have the answer for you. I provide the udev_timeout tip for information - might help with older hardware.