On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 06:44, Ashley Reynolds wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm in the process of installing and configuring Mandrake 8.2 on my newly > acquired laptop - a Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS. I overcame an issue with > "Detecting PCMCIA Devices.." in the installer, where it would freeze the > machine up, by booting from a PCMCIA boot disk. > > I have now run into another problem. > > When booting Mandrake, the system freezes when it comes to "Starting > pcmcia:". This occurs when there is a PCMCIA card in there, when there is > not, when it is in Slot 0, when it is in Slot 1. I have determined that > the PCMCIA ports are in working order by installing Windows 98 and testing > them out.
Does it truly freeze up, or is it waiting for a dhcp server response or
something, and just needs to time out? I had a similar problem with an
IBM ThinkPad once, and it would take about 10 minutes to time out. I
only discovered this by accident, as I walked away from the laptop
during troubleshooting, and was surprised to return and find that it had
actually booted all the way to a login prompt!
Unfortunately, I don't remember what I did to fix the issue. I do
remember it wasn't just a dhcp timeout but something else, perhaps
related to the order in which pcmcia was started and then networking (my
pcmcia card was a NIC, so they need to load in the correct order) :-(
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