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

[ABrady <xunil kc rr com>]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:08:00 -0400 (EDT)
Vincent Carey <carey hsph harvard edu> wrote:

> > 
> > 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?

I don't know. How much ram are you using?

maybe you can go into single user mode, turn pcmcia off and retry.

It may also be something running after that that's causing the problem.
It may be that the last thing getting printed to screen is pcmcia but
something afterward is what's failing.

Did you do a clean install or an upgrade? If an upgrade, that might be
the problem. There are some major differences between 6.1 and 7.3. I've
had new libraries cause things to go haywire. You'd think they installer
would refuse to allow that, but they sometimes slip in anyway.

If you did an upgrade, I'd go into single use mode, salvage whatever I
could of things, then reinstall cleanly to see what happens.

> > 
> > 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

You already provided some more: 6.1 worked, now 7.3; sitting for a long
period doesn't move onward.

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