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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font face="Arial,sans-serif" color="#000000">The hanging can be caused by many things. <br><br>1. Try adding "nomodeset" to the boot command line. It may be a graphics driver issue - notable with Nvidia based systems and the nouveau default driver.</font><div><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif" color="#000000">2. If you have multiple graphics cards (more relevent to desktop) such as an on-board and an PCIe based card it is important to make sure that either you have monitors plugged into both outputs or that the on-board is completely disabled - setting the bios selection to use PCIe first is not enough as there is an issue during boot where the graphics driver will swap to using the on-board graphics just after the loading ramdisk message.</font></div></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial,sans-serif" color="#000000">3. Have you added kernal debug options to the boot command? </font><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Such as verbose, debug and ignore_loglevel? The last one is particularly useful and shows how far the boot actually got. Some info here: </span><a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/boot_debugging" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/boot_debugging</a> although arch linux its still relevent.</div> </div></body>
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