booting gets stuck when starting PCMCIA

[Rajkumar Adsule]

On 9/21/05, Amadeus W. M. <amadeus84 at 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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