Re: 7.2 boot hangs (forever) in starting pcmcia:

[Vincent Carey <carey hsph harvard edu>]

> 
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 09:24:02 -0400 (EDT)
> Vincent Carey <carey hsph harvard edu> wrote:
> 
> > installed 7.2 on toshiba 2530 cds laptop without
> > a problem (except complaints about low ram)
> > 
> > first boot attempt hangs at starting pcmcia:
> > network card in or out does not have an effect.
> > any advice appreciated
> 
> Let it run through the boot. It could take a minute or so for that, plus
> another minute or so for sendmail. Maybe even others. But it will
> eventually finish booting.

i am a pretty patient person.  i have been looking at this
"Starting pcmcia:" for 6 minutes now.  the last time i tried,
when i came back, the machine was completely unresponsive
and screen was blank. 

note this was an install onto a machine that was running 6.1
fine with the pcmcia card that was present.

is there any chance that adding ram will help get it
through the boot?
> 
> That's all of the help I can offer. You didn't provide a lot of
> information and I'm not very conversant about laptops in any case.

what other information would be helpful?   the kernel is 2.4.7-10
init version 2.78