XP/FC1 on Dell Inpiron 5150

Pierre De Boeck pierre.deboeck at skynet.be
Sat Mar 13 23:43:09 UTC 2004


Ok, I have disabled the floppy but the system is still hanging,
now on "SOCKET STATUS". I think it is related to pc card(pcmcia).

How can I disable it?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Schwartz [mailto:MSchwartz at MedAnalytics.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:34 AM
> To: pierre.deboeck at skynet.be
> Subject: RE: XP/FC1 on Dell Inpiron 5150
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 17:22, Pierre De Boeck wrote:
> > 	Hi again Mark,
> > 
> > And how can I boot in text mode apart using the rescude mode?
> 
> If you can get into your system, edit /etc/inittab
> 
> In that file will be a line that has:
> 
> id:5:initdefault:
> 
> Change the '5' to a '3' so that it reads:
> 
> id:3:initdefault:
> 
> This will change the default so that your system boots to a console
> instead of trying to go directly into X.
> 
> Once you have logged in, you can then type:
> 
> startx
> 
> to attempt to get into the X GUI.
> 
> I would leave your system at "runlevel 3" until you are confident that
> everything is OK. Once you are OK, then change the entry above back to
> '5'.
> 
> Also, one other thing. Fedora has what is called a "graphical boot'. On
> the grub.conf kernel line may be an option that has 'rhgb'. If so, I
> would remove this. This is known to cause a variety of problems and is
> not worth the hassle at this point.
> 
> > I have also a UGXA 1600*200 and I selected the same as you.
> 
> OK.
> 
> > But I will first try to solve the floppy issue.
> 
> :-)
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> 
> 





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