llinuxcompatible

hi i have hp pavilion5200dx notebook with me and have a mistubushi external usb hard drive. i visited this forum and installed fc5 in my external drive, made a new initrd image and edited the grub.conf but the problem now is while booting, the system stop responding while starting udev can any one tell me why the notebook stops responding while starting udev. please tell me a solution. eagarly waiting to see FC5 boot in my laptop. waiting for ur replies thank u................