RH9 boot hang on initial startup

rje_NC · 07-05-2003, 07:51 PM

I am trying to load RH9 on my Compaq Presario 2145US. I turned off the legacy USB support so the keyboard would not hang up and everything appeared to install well.

During the first boot after installation, the machine hangs at the PCMCIA services loading. This is happening consistently, and I cannot get past this point.

I can boot the machine off the RH9 CD-1 in rescue mode, but I do not know how to turn off the pcmcia services to see if I can get the machine to complete the boot process.

Any help on what to edit to skip pcmcia services would be appreciated.

Thanks...

Bob

zmedico · 07-05-2003, 09:45 PM

After you "boot the machine off the RH9 CD-1 in rescue mode" and the redhat partition is mounted on /mnt/sysimage you can do this:

Code:

cd /mnt/sysimage
chroot .
/sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 pcmcia off
exit
exit

rje_NC · 07-07-2003, 07:55 AM

Thanks zmedico, that got me going....

It does not look like I can use the pcmcia services on this notebook. The machine hangs when I load them in RH9 and Slackware.

Bob

zmedico · 07-07-2003, 02:03 PM

Cool, maybe you can file a bug report to the maintainers of the pcmcia service or drivers.

cropcircle · 07-07-2003, 04:57 PM

What happens if you use the kernel option "nopcmcia"?

This command ignores any PCMCIA controllers in system.

See the following page :
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...-bootopts.html

rje_NC · 07-07-2003, 08:46 PM

I thought I tried that during one installation attempt over the weekend but I cannot be sure. I don't think it did ignore the controller, it still hung if I remember correctly. (I went through so many installation attempts with RH9, Slackware9, and SuSE8.2 trying to determine what would work best on the notebook that my head is still spinning).

It doesn't seem to be any different from disabling the services though, the end result is no pcmcia stuff!

Bob