PCMCIA boot problem

phyre-x · 05-17-2006, 06:48 PM

im booting to slack via grub with the setup in menu.lst

root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.31 root=/dev/hda4 nopcmcia ro vga=771
boot

is this right to skip the

Starting PCMCIA services:

<Probing for PCIC: edit /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia>

because thats the part where nothing will move any further and the only button i have left is the power one, i booted from slackware cd and enabled pcmcia to test where it asks to enable pcmcia devices for installation and it moved along ok.

any way to solve this ?

thanks

Phyre-x

elyk · 05-17-2006, 08:43 PM

Try a "chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia" to skip loading PCMCIA support. I'm not sure if this is what you're aiming for, though.

-elyk

phyre-x · 05-18-2006, 05:43 AM

theres no where for me to chmod as i cant boot into slack, thanks anyway

onebuck · 05-18-2006, 08:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phyre-x

theres no where for me to chmod as i cant boot into slack, thanks anyway

Hi,

Just use a livecd or the install cd1 to boot. Then you create a mount point for the Slackware mount.

Code:

#mkdir /mnt/slack
#mount /dev/hdaN /mnt/salck     #Change N to device
#cd /mnt/slack/etc/rc.d
chmod -x rc.pcmcia

or 

#chmod -x /mnt/slack/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia

Now when you reboot your slack the rc.pcmcia script will not execute.