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

[Vincent Carey <carey hsph harvard edu>]

> > 
> > is there any chance that adding ram will help get it
> > through the boot?
> 
> I don't know. How much ram are you using?

i also don't know.  is there a way to find out?  the
machine shipped with 32MB and i don't believe it
was extended.  that seems quite small.

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

can you give some details on how to do this?

> 
> 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.

well, for each "Starting ..." entry there is an "OK" printed
before proceeding to the next one.  for pcmcia no OK appears.

> 
> Did you do a clean install or an upgrade? If an upgrade, that might be

clean install of 7.2, not 7.3.  thanks for your assistance

> 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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