Hello,

I think you might be running into this:

https://git.ipfire.org/?p=ipfire-2.x.git;a=commitdiff;h=4c76d08b2a1ef5ac9ff8b546c0d887e342adec1c

The framebuffer driver is no longer blacklisted and that causes the kernel to crash on my VIA devices.

You can mount the hard drive in a different computer and edit the file manually if that is an option for you.

Best,
-Michael

> On 2 Jan 2019, at 17:13, Tapani Tarvainen <ipfire(a)tapanitarvainen.fi> wrote:
> 
> Core126 upgrade killed a machine: boot freezes after udevd start.
> 
> Experimenting with fresh (flash) installation image (and new CF card)
> gave same result.
> 
> Up to and including core125 it works like charm (also tested with a
> fresh image).
> 
> This is a bit difficult to debug: the last message displayed is
> 
> "Starting udev daemon...   [ OK ]"
> 
> After that even keyboard is dead (caps lock doesn't work, nor alt-ctrl-del).
> 
> And as this happens before disks are mounted, there's no log to read.
> 
> This is a rather old machine, VIA C3 CPU, 512MB RAM, booting of CF card,
> but there's nothing obviously wrong with the hardware, and as noted it
> worked just fine up to and including core125.
> 
> I could leave it running core125, but a firewall that can't be upgraded
> is not a workable long-term proposition.
> 
> Any suggestions as to how I could try to track the problem down?
> 
> -- 
> Tapani Tarvainen