I have this brand new Sony VAIO VGN-S470P laptop and I just installed FC4 on it. Installation went unexpectedly smooth, but upon first boot, the computer freezes at starting PCMCIA.
Of course the laptop came with factory installed XP, so I had to shrink the NTFS partition. I did that using Knoppix 4.0 and upon the first attempt to boot knoppix, the same thing happened, it got stuck at starting PCMCIA. In Knoppix there was the "nopcmcia" option to boot without, and so I managed to get in, but I tried that in FC4 and it's still trying to start PCMCIA.
Is there a kernel option to avoid starting PCMCIA upon boot? Otherwise, I'll probably have to boot the rescue cd, chkconfig, etc.
Thanks!
On 9/21/05, Amadeus W. M. amadeus84@cablespeed.com wrote:
I have this brand new Sony VAIO VGN-S470P laptop and I just installed FC4 on it. Installation went unexpectedly smooth, but upon first boot, the computer freezes at starting PCMCIA.
Of course the laptop came with factory installed XP, so I had to shrink the NTFS partition. I did that using Knoppix 4.0 and upon the first attempt to boot knoppix, the same thing happened, it got stuck at starting PCMCIA. In Knoppix there was the "nopcmcia" option to boot without, and so I managed to get in, but I tried that in FC4 and it's still trying to start PCMCIA.
Is there a kernel option to avoid starting PCMCIA upon boot? Otherwise, I'll probably have to boot the rescue cd, chkconfig, etc.
thats correct boot ur system in single user mode then run #chkconfig pcmcia off and then # init 5 or reboot
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Amadeus W. M. wrote:
I have this brand new Sony VAIO VGN-S470P laptop and I just installed FC4 on it. Installation went unexpectedly smooth, but upon first boot, the computer freezes at starting PCMCIA.
Of course the laptop came with factory installed XP, so I had to shrink the NTFS partition. I did that using Knoppix 4.0 and upon the first attempt to boot knoppix, the same thing happened, it got stuck at starting PCMCIA. In Knoppix there was the "nopcmcia" option to boot without, and so I managed to get in, but I tried that in FC4 and it's still trying to start PCMCIA.
Is there a kernel option to avoid starting PCMCIA upon boot? Otherwise, I'll probably have to boot the rescue cd, chkconfig, etc.
Thanks!
I had problems with my HP laptop when I first installed Severn on it that was related to a BIOS setting which related to USB legacy support. It would lockup at loading PCMCIA. After changing BIOS to not have USB legacy support, it booted up past that error and worked without problems. The legacy support emulates PS2 operation for OS versions like DOS and are probably not needed for later OS versions. It usually gives werd problems if activated though.
Just a similar problem that might be caused by a similar setting. I also added acpi=on to my kernel boot stanza to get things working.
Jim
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 23:37 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
I have this brand new Sony VAIO VGN-S470P laptop and I just installed FC4 on it. Installation went unexpectedly smooth, but upon first boot, the computer freezes at starting PCMCIA.
Of course the laptop came with factory installed XP, so I had to shrink the NTFS partition. I did that using Knoppix 4.0 and upon the first attempt to boot knoppix, the same thing happened, it got stuck at starting PCMCIA. In Knoppix there was the "nopcmcia" option to boot without, and so I managed to get in, but I tried that in FC4 and it's still trying to start PCMCIA.
Is there a kernel option to avoid starting PCMCIA upon boot? Otherwise, I'll probably have to boot the rescue cd, chkconfig, etc.
Use the interactive startup ... Press i when the prompt appears, then skip the pcmcia part.
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Jeff Vian wrote:
Use the interactive startup ... Press i when the prompt appears, then skip the pcmcia part.
I've occasionally tried this as an experiment, but never managed to get it to work on my Sony Picturebook laptop. I've tried "i" and "I" but neither seems to have any effect.
Incidentally, what exactly does one do if it does work?
Jeff Vian:
Use the interactive startup ... Press i when the prompt appears, then skip the pcmcia part.
Timothy Murphy:
I've occasionally tried this as an experiment, but never managed to get it to work on my Sony Picturebook laptop. I've tried "i" and "I" but neither seems to have any effect.
Incidentally, what exactly does one do if it does work?
Figuring out what moment to press the key seems to be a black art, and it always seems to be that it notices you've pressed the key too late for whatever issue you had a problem with.
When it works, you get to say "yes" or "no" to each process that would start up as you boot (all the parts that have the [failed] or [ok] lines as it normally boots up). Once you've had enough of playing boot-up demigod, you can "continue" on booting with the normal boot sequence (what's normally started up, will start up, when its turn comes along).
Thank you all, nice to see 3 different solutions to one problem. I had forgotten about booting interactively.
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